Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture

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Lavishly illustrated, fully cross-referenced and indexed: an invaluable book for anyone wishing to see and understand Maya art through the eyes of ancient scribes and artists.The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in all of pre-Columbian America. Maya art ... More >>

Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sculpture

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

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America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. According to Amy Sedaris, it's often been said that ugly people craft and attractive people have sex. In her new book, SIMPLE TIMES, she sets the record straight. Demonstrating that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable and constructive leisure activities, Sedaris shows that anyone with a couple of hours... More >>

Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People

Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

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Leo Steinberg’s classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from “Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public” and the “flatbed picture plane” to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called “a tour de force of critical method,” is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns’s work ever written. This edition incl... More >>

Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

• Tan and brown hardcover with beautiful jacket of colors of black, tan and scene.

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William Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire is the preeminent popular history of civilization's rebirth after the Dark Ages.Amazon.com Review
It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts... More >>

A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

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While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew.

This unusual encounter and the moral dilemma it posed raise fundamental questions about the limits and possibilities of forgiveness. Must we, can we forgive the repentant criminal? Can we forgive... More >>

The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness

Modigliani: A Life

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“People like us . . . have different rights, different values than do ordinary people because we have different needs which put us . . . above their moral standards.” —Modigliani

Amedeo (“Beloved of God”) Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh’s. In Modigliani’s time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but not part of their movement. His work was a ... More >>

Modigliani: A Life

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

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Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is the ultimate inside story of a decade of cultural revolution. Andy Warhol's own story of the 1960s and the extraordinary scene that surrounded his studio--The Factory. Illustrated.... More >>

POPism: The Warhol Sixties