TREASURE OF WATCHDOG MOUNTAIN
The Story of a Mountain in the Catskills - the newly revised edition of Alf Evers\' pioneering book for children on the environment. A fictionalized version of what happened to Overlook Mountain, it is the story of so many mountains in that they share a mosaic of geology, geography, natural wonders and human communities. |
Samuel Palmer
A tree-hugger ahead of his time, wrote the New York Times of romantic British landscape painter Samuel Palmer. In this book (and in a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), it is as if the landscape sepias transcend reality. |
A New Flowering: 1000 Years of Botanical Art
From the collection of Dr. Shirley Sherwood with additional botanical art treasures from Oxford libraries and museums. Centuries old plant portraits and those painted today stand side by side. |
A Thousand and One Days
In 1983, Pakistani women artists came together secretly in Lahore to draft a manifesto acknowledging the contribution made by women to art education and practice and to the women’s struggle “for a society free from the constraints of intolerance and obscurantism.” This book provides a window into modern day Pakistani art and life as leading women artists examine social themes and complicated issues. |
Phar Lap
On every list of the all-star racing horses of the world is Phar Lap. Phar Lap (1926-1932. A Depression-era winner, not only gave hope and joy to Australians but was cheered around the globe. |
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
A Survey 1955-2005 -- Ms. Pigott is one of the most original and acclaimed ceramicists of her generation. This book explores her deep ceramic literacy and emotional connection to raw materials and their transformation. |
Landmarks
-Indigenous Australian Art in the NGV-- examines important moments in the history of Indigenous art and acknowledges a succession of legendary figures who continue to inspire Indigenous artists today. Aboriginal art’s dots, swirls, dashes, lines and bright colors have an appeal as contemporary art and yet this is the world’s oldest continuing art. One of the compelling aspects is the book\'s treatment of superb photographs of land formations presented in relationship to the forms, shapes and hues of the Aboriginal art.
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Island to Empire 300 Years of British Art
A lushly-presented survey starting with the British Renaissance in the mid-16th century. Accompanying these 240 works -- oils, miniatures, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculptures and decorative arts -- is information on provenance, literature, exhibitions, condition and the frames that hold each piece. |
Morris & Co.
Features the printed and woven textiles and furnishings, wallpapers, embroideries, tapestries, stained glass, tiles, furniture and book arts of designer William Morris, and Morris & Co., the design firm he founded with Dante Gabriel Rossetti. |
Peter Booth
Human Nature -- Peter Booth\'s minimalist fields of black of the 1960s were as radical as his hotly colored figurative paintings of the \'70s. Today he continues to link the themes that ever drive his imagination -- humanity, nature and human nature. |
