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I Heard God Talking to Me

William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings

Elizabeth Spires Frances Foster Books

One night in the early 1930s, William Edmondson, the son of former slaves and a janitor in Nashville, Tennessee, heard God speaking to him. And so he began to...

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	Young at Art Teaching Toddlers Self-Expression, Problem-Solving Skills, and an Appreciation for Art Susan Striker Holt Paperbacks From the creator of the bestselling Anti-Coloring Book series with more than 600,000 copies sold, a new parenting guide to encouraging creativity in...

Trade Paperback : $19.99 Buy	Comic Art Propaganda A Graphic History Fredrik Strömberg with a Foreword by Peter Kuper St. Martin's Griffin As one of the most effective and powerful forms of communication, it comes as no surprise that comic art has been misappropriated by governments, self-interest...

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Platonic & Archimedean Solids Wooden Books Daud Sutton Walker & Company Whereas Sacred Geometry introduced readers to two-dimensional forms, Platonic & Archimedean Solids presents the world of three dimensions, which was understood...

Hardcover : $12.00 Buy	Islamic Design A Genius for Geometry Wooden Books Daud Sutton Walker & Company An exploration of the construction and meaning of Islamic geometric patterns. Throughout their long history the craft traditions of the Islamic world...

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Off the Wall

A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg

Calvin Tomkins Picador

"I commend Calvin Tomkins, as Bernard Berenson did Vasari, for 'being a singularly warm, generous, and appreciative critic.'"—The New York Times Book Review

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Guernica The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon Gijs van Hensbergen Bloomsbury USA Guernica relates the powerful story of Picasso’s 1937 masterpiece, a painting that from its birth out of war and violence became known worldwide as a symbolic...

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Loot

The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World

Sharon Waxman Times Books

“Sharon Waxman’s Loot is the most instructive as well as the most intelligent (and the most entertaining) guide through the labyrinth of antiquity and the ways in which the claims of the departed intersect with the rights of the living.”—Christopher Hitchens author of God Is Not Great and The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece?

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Trade Paperback : $6.95 Buy	North American Indian Arts A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Andrew Hunter Whiteford, under the editorship of Herbert S. Zim, Ph.D., Sc.D.; Illustrated by Owen Vernon Shaffer Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press have been updated and revised to revitalize the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

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The Painted Word

Tom Wolfe Picador

"America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post) Wolfe's style has never been...

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