> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fall 2026 Art and Architecture Books from Yale University Press - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/fall-2026-art-and-architecture-books-from-yale-university-press/ - Published: 2026-11-10T15:35:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-10T15:34:59.000Z - Description: The Bayeux tapestry, a new biography of Edward Hopper, The Met's exhibition catalogue on Krasner and Pollock, what architecture is, and more - Author: Yale University Press - Tags: Announcement, Book Announcements, Yale University Press, Sponsored The Fall 2026 lineup of art and architecture books from Yale University Press has both beauty and erudition. Exhibition catalogues from our museum publishing partners include [*Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous*](https://bit.ly/48ARi3V?ref=hyperallergic.com) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), [*Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism*](https://bit.ly/4sOMx0a?ref=hyperallergic.com)(Art Institute of Chicago), [*Roy Lichtenstein: Like New*](https://bit.ly/4z91ETI?ref=hyperallergic.com) (Whitney Museum of American Art), and [*The Bayeux Tapestry*](https://bit.ly/4emfkTK?ref=hyperallergic.com)(British Museum). Owen Davies explores the [*Art of Divination*](https://bit.ly/4Ahif8I?ref=hyperallergic.com) across time and geography; Witold Rybczynski is characteristically eloquent on [*What Architecture Is*](https://bit.ly/4AaQezy?ref=hyperallergic.com); Neil Levine analyzes [*The Sculpture of Donald Judd*](https://bit.ly/4zovzaF?ref=hyperallergic.com); and Louis Shadwick gives us a brilliant new biography of [*Edward Hopper*](https://bit.ly/4ioOUTM?ref=hyperallergic.com). To learn more, visit [yalebooks.yale.edu](https://bit.ly/3UIJ1Yu?ref=hyperallergic.com). --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/4-1.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4Ahif8I?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**The Art of Divination**](https://bit.ly/4Ahif8I?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Owen Davies In this captivating book, Owen Davies explores the global history of divination practices from tea leaves and tarot cards to pyromancy and palmistry that seek to answer questions that range from the philosophical and metaphysical to the romantic and personal. Organized into six thematic groups—observing the natural world; making patterns; communicating with gods and spirits; signs from the human body and mind; looking to the heavens; and chance and calculation—*Art of Divination* allows readers to see connections between different ages and places. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/8.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4emfkTK?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**The Bayeux Tapestry**](https://bit.ly/4emfkTK?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Owen Davies The Bayeux Tapestry is an iconic artwork, almost seventy meters long, which tells the story of the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy. Featuring a full-color reproduction of the Tapestry and all-new photography, this beautiful book allows the reader to follow the visual narrative—with a scene-by-scene transliteration and English translation of the Tapestry’s Latin—while texts from international experts unpick the importance of the work in understanding this pivotal point in European history. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/7-1.jpg)](https://bit.ly/48ARi3V?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous**](https://bit.ly/48ARi3V?ref=hyperallergic.com) By David Breslin and Brinda Kumar The book surveys two icons of Abstract Expressionism that examines their distinct but connected careers and artistic legacies. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/1.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4ioOUTM?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**Edward Hopper: A Life**](https://bit.ly/4ioOUTM?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Louis Shadwick *Edward Hopper: A Life* reexamines the standard view of this renowned artist by interweaving his life and work and vividly reconstructing the personal, cultural, historical, and political contexts of his time. Using major new archives and a wealth of newly discovered sources, Louis Shadwick presents the richest and most complete story of Hopper’s life and art to date, revealing new dimensions to an artist whose carefully wrought identity has never been fully unraveled. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/3.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4sOMx0a?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism**](https://bit.ly/4sOMx0a?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Art Institute of Chicago Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was a trailblazing artist who worked across media, manipulated materials, transformed subjects through series and scale, and marketed and exhibited her artwork in novel ways. *In Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism*, scholars highlight Cassatt’s daring, ingenuity, and ceaselessly independent vision—both in her artistic technique and choice of subject matter—and consider the lasting impact of her aesthetic breakthroughs and significant legacy. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/6-1.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4z91ETI?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [Roy Lichtenstein: Like New](https://bit.ly/4z91ETI?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Alex Da Corte and Meg Onli Contributions by Dan Nadel, Marshall N Price and Carmen Winant A career-spanning look at the methods, influences, motivations, and continuing relevance of one of America’s foremost Pop artists. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/2-3.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4zovzaF?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**The Sculpture of Donald Judd**](https://bit.ly/4zovzaF?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Neil Levine *The Sculpture of Donald Judd* is the first chronological study of the artist’s pathbreaking and enormously influential work beginning with his turn from painting to sculpture in 1961–62 until his death in 1994\. The analyses of the work, often considered the foundation of Minimalism, are based on close readings, highly attentive to detail and informed by a friendship with the artist. --- [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/2026/11/5.jpg)](https://bit.ly/4AaQezy?ref=hyperallergic.com) ### [**What Architecture Is**](https://bit.ly/4AaQezy?ref=hyperallergic.com) By Witold Rybczynski What is it about architecture that distinguishes it from ordinary building? Frustrated with the many cookie-cutter buildings going up around his home in downtown Philadelphia, eminent architectural historian and critic Witold Rybczynski offers an immersive meditation on the question in this extended essay, an insightful and opinionated reflection on the essential qualities of architecture both historical and modern. Witty, personal, and engaging, this *cri de coeur* from an esteemed critic takes on the age-old question of what elevates a mere building into an art form. --- To learn more, visit [yalebooks.yale.edu](https://bit.ly/3UIJ1Yu?ref=hyperallergic.com).