Michelangelo's Notebooks is an intimate celebration of the artist's sketches, architectural drawings, letters, and love poems. Michelangelo Buonarroti is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the sixteenth century, not only in painting but in writing and poetry as well. He filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, many of which would eventually become some of the most celebrated masterpieces of all time, and he wrote over 300 poems and sonnets on admiration and spirituality. Organized chronologically, Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work, and combines the artists's own words with his sketches and finished compositions. His letters about the Sistine Chapel and Pope Julius, for example, are illustrated with sketches that he produced while he was writing. Edited and curated by Carolyn Vaughan, former editor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she provides fascinating commentary and insights into the material presented throughout the book.
Drawn from the collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Global Asias examines the cosmopolitan and the mundane, the exuberant and the somber, and the subtly subversive and enigmatic characteristics of contemporary Asian and Asian American art. Though the artists featured in the exhibition share a common Asian heritage, their backgrounds and styles differ vastly, and each artist draws on an array of motifs, techniques, and cultural motivations to construct diverse "Asias" in a modern global context. The fifteen artists represented here were born in Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Argentina, or the United States; all are adept at crossing borders-not only physical ones but also those in media, styles, genre, and materiality. The full recognition of works by Asian and Asian American artists, this exhibition suggests, rewrites the history of modern art as well as the history of American art, both of which turn out to be more vibrant and colorful than we knew, once we embrace such inclusivity.
A wonderful Christmastime keepsake that explores the first Christmas gifts. This book tells the story of the Magi & their journey & explains the symbolism & the significance of their gifts.
An introduction to ballet juxtaposes works of art by French impressionist painter Edgar Degas with illustrations of modern-day ballet students, in a volume that includes a brief history of ballet and a biography of Degas.
Poetry is ecstatic speech. It is intended to be spoken aloud, not simply read silently from the page. D.H. Lawrence's poetry is ecstatic in nature, particularly his poems which are concerned with issues of human wholeness. The Author's vision for writing this book has been simply to introduce some of D.H. Lawrence's magnificent poems in such a way that others might come to love and appreciate them as deeply as he does. People from every gender and walk of life can find enjoyment and inspiration from Lawrence's poetry in "Hunger For Wholeness".
The first book chronicling the incredible and controversial life of Thomas Johnson. The builderof the Shawnee Indian Mission School (1839-1865), in one of Kansas City's loved suburbs, Fairway. This book contains a vast array of historical photographs of the school, students and surrounding areas
This anthology contains the first, second, and third place winners from the 2013 Aspiring Writers monthly short story and poetry challenges. Writers have only two weeks to craft a story or poem meeting the challenge.
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