Transforming work of art.
355617
This book was precisely what I needed returning to coach high school football. I left the game for 3 years believing, as a Christian, that the game of football and walking with Christ were incompatible. Joe has helped me to see that the transformational coach can do just that. I would recommend  this book to any coach of any sport at any level. Joe writes about winning with dignity and losing with honor. This is a teaching point that I will carry with me for as long as I coach.
1956099
Excellent illistrations of some of Ingres best works.  A very good book worth adding to any art library.  Worth the price.
473502
This extraordinary book is well thought and masterfully designed piece of art itself. It represents sculptural biography from the author's point of view.  Each sculptural object chosen for this publication, comes with its unique story and gives space to experience it ...... I could only wish this book was coming with Georg Schmerholz's handwritten signature....or tiny piece of carved jade embedded in the cover.
3766054
The art work here is good. I really like it. I debated about sending thid back. Some painting subjects never age or show a time period. This artist made me feel like these guys in the paintings were eternal like the angels.
3641931
A very nice piece of art work when you already have too many pictures and need something different.  Mine was true to the one pictured.  It came in a very well packaged box in perfect condition.  I would purchase it again if I needed to.
1482142
The Book Beautiful, whether manuscript, incunabulum, vellum or leather-bound, was once for the rich or for use in the Church.  But in time, every commercial printer could produce a beautiful book and the cover is often what made it sell.  Richard Minsky's book shows us the beautiful books ordinary people could buy from American publishers by and before 1900.  He profiles the book cover artists, discusses their styles and innovations, and analyzes the effects they produced with their design, working within and exploiting a new medium: the cloth book cover, limited in size and to the effects that could be produced with brass die stamping.  As one who has admired this art (and scoured library sales for examples) for many years, I am delighted and thankful that someone has managed to bring this art to a wider public appreciation.  One can page through this book in amazement at a series of artful illusions or study and read how the artist achieved her or his effect.  For myself, Richard Minsky has reminded me why I have admired and collected these books and reanimated my delight in looking at them!
1944532
This is a beautiful piece of art. The artisans personal work is clear and makes the design especially appealing. It was a retirement gift for a dear colleague who values fair trade, beauty, and story. The personal associations abound. Thank you for the joy it will bring for years to come.
218054
The photos are great.  I recommend it to anyone interested in this type of art.  There is a larger version with all different photos.  I have this at work.
2727397
"The Sculpture of Moissac" by Meyer Schapiro is the paradigm on the subject.  This is a study and philosophy of the sculptures on the capitals topping the columns that make up the cloister of Saint Pierre Abby at Moissac, France.  Mr. Schapiro was a lecturer, writer and professor of  art history at Columbia University. Known through out the world to scholars as well as artists Prof. Schapiro changed the discipline of art history by paying attention to the social, philosophical and what materials were used at different periods of art history. His humanist and very active approach gives readers to understand the art under discussion with clear insights. Prof. Schapiro wrote with detail and accuracy of facts but went further by filtering complex arguments into plain language that explains how an art work came into being. In "The Sculpture of Moissac" he announces and proves that the carvers of the sculptures under the current political, ecclesiastical and technological conditions and restrictions managed to find ways to have fun creating certain pieces for the cloister.  No one could have come up with that conclusion and proof the way Prof. Schapiro did. If your interest is Romanesque Art or art in general this book is a must and you would do well to look up Meyer Schapiro's other books on various art ideas from medieval to modern.  Reading Meyer Schapiro is always enlightening and one can sense through his words a joy and enthusiasm for his subject matter.
1787950
A step-by-step procedure, beautifully visualized and mapped, for remaking suburban built environments. Augumented by case studies. A rare combination of creativity and precision focused on a critical problem. Bravo!
583195
I have not yet bought nor read The Passion of Christ: a Gay Vision, though I have followed the paintings as Doug showed them on Facebook and on his blog. I was deeply moved by the faithfulness to the Passion narrative as told in the Gospels, and to its burning desire to proclaim the meaning of that story in art. The church, it is said, is only or two generations from extinction; each must pass on the faith entrusted to the Apostles, to those who have heard too often the dry bones of yesterday's proclamation, and think they have heard the Gospel, or to those who have not heard it, and don't like what they have heard about it. The Gospel is about good news to the oppressed, and to the weak and despised: Samaritans, Roman soldiers thieves, whores, and murderers. Not so with the powerful, the well-connected, and the comfortable.

The paintings stand squarely in the tradition of Christian art throughout its course: proclaiming the gospel, and without words, as St. Francis noted. Art has always been democratically accessible to the crowds, before widespread literacy, and now to the cosmopolitan world in all its diversity. Children may be moved by art, speakers of other languages, and with other traditions may readily gain from encounters with art Art always has spoken to its own age first; we see the Virgin as a Renaissance Flemish or Italian princess, and think nothing of it. Our Lady of Guadalupe?  Entirely natural today.

Doug's paintings are beautiful, luminous, and hopeful. When so few artists devote so much of their talent, energy, and time to such a traditional religious subject, I thank Godde for this magnificent work's completion. I believe a copy belongs in every religious organization's library in the country.
2251002
Provides a function, and it's beautiful art brings a visual joy.
1050844
Daniella has managed to put together an exhibition in book form that showcases the inspired and inspiring artwork of a number of encaustic artists and gives an insight into the work through the artists' own words. Wonderful.
3884235
Beautiful Art and insightful process. It shows the dedication and painstaking effort the artists and writers put to create this film. It was a wonderful gift for my friend who adores animation history and art.
2816764
We are used to looking at "old Master" painting as if it were just a matter of style, but the truth is that Renaissance art was in important respects the product of a revolution in the use of binding media (water and egg yolk for tempera; oils) for pigments, and in the prepared surfaces (wood panels, paper, canvas) to which these pigments were applied.  This wonderfully illustrated book distills the knowledge gained by the restorers of the National Gallery in London, from decades of well-documented, cutting-edge restorations of the outstanding Italian and northern European Old Master paintings in their care.  It is much, much more than a technical handbook.  Historical essays cover the categories of Renaissance painting, 1300 to 1500, and their many uses, while the second half of the book is an informative catalogue (with gorgeous color reproductions) of individual paintings by many of the best-known Renaissance artists (Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, to name the most obvious).
3805606
A great journey to fallow this artist from the concept to the four year completion of this wonderful sculpture.
2383891
The publisher of this book clearly went out of their way to create a work of art as fine as the palace they depict.  The materials of this composition are of a type rarely seen in publishing.  The fine cloth bindings, the pastel colors, the quality photographic reproduction--the book is a statement of the best of the craft.

The work of the author too is an inspiration: it shows the renovation of a part of Versailles, truly a behind the seen view not seen since the palace was visited by the various kings and queens who oversaw its initial construction.

It is an historical documentation with a wry expression of insight: by the photographer, by the publisher, and by those of the conservators maintaining the heritage of France.  Each rely on the other to accomplish--brilliantly--this 3 volume set of books well worth the price.

For those collecting fine books but also as a legacy to be passed down or on to those who love exquisite books.