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  • Through a Catholic Lens

    Religious Perspectives of 19 Film Directors from Around the World

    Series series Communication, Culture, and Religion
    Movies are often examined for subtext and dramatizations of social and psychological issues as well as current movements. Studies of well-known Catholic directors, such as Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford, have made the search for Catholic themes a reputable field of examination. Through a Catholic Lens continues the search for these themes and examines the Catholic undercurrents by studying ... Read more

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  • Corita Kent

    Gentle Revolutionary of the Heart

    Series series People of God
    Corita Kent, an American nun and pop artist, led a life of creativity and love that took her in unexpected directions. In this engaging portrait, Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP, offers an in-depth look at Corita Kent, gentle revolutionary of the heart, letting the beauty and truth of her life and art speak for itself.Frances Elizabeth Kent’s rise to fame coincided with some of the most socially volatile ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Martin Sheen

    Pilgrim on the Way

    Series series People of God
    Martin Sheen, best known for his role as a Catholic president in the prestigious television series The West Wing, returned to the practice of his Catholic faith at the age of forty after decades away. After years of battling alcohol addiction, a near-fatal heart attack, and a nervous breakdown, the stage, film, and television actor renewed his dedication to his family and activated his faith with ... Read more

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    A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars

    WIth full-color illustrations throughoutFrom the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith.America’s premier intellectual provocateur returns to the ... Read more

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  • Keith Haring Journals

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Keith Haring ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Warhol

    by Gerry Souter ...
    As well as one of the leading figures in the American Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol was a painter, printmaker, occasional sculptor and filmmaker, whose work carried on the tradition of Dadaism which questioned the very validity of art itself. He used images, objects and their means of production to draw parallels with cultural processes. By means of a variety of techniques, but principally through ... Read more

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  • How to See

    Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art

    by David Salle ...
    “If John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is a classic of art criticism, looking at the ‘what’ of art, then David Salle’s How to See is the artist’s reply, a brilliant series of reflections on how artists think when they make their work. The ‘how’ of art has perhaps never been better explored.” —Salman RushdieHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Chasing Light

    Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer

    A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama—many never before seen—coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format.Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her ... Read more

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  • Paul Carpenter

    Paul Carpenter is an artist worth looking at. He has shown at influential galleries on both coasts of America. The book contains fascinating comments not only on Carpenter's work, but the state of modern art in general.Writing about his own work under the pseudonym Olivero del Santos, Carpenter investigates the cultural and political foundations of his painting and its context in the broader ... Read more

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  • Remington

    Capturing the Wild West in Paint and Bronze

    It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remington’s art without thinking of the merely human elements. Remington became interested in the American Indian, probably because he became interested in the active, exciting life of the American Great Plains. The Indian appealed to him not in any histrionic way, not as a figure stepped out from the pages of Hiawatha, but just as a human subject. ... Read more

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  • Working South

    Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

    by Mary Whyte ...
    Dynamic artistry celebrating the diverse lives and labors of hardscrabble SouthernersIn Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, ... Read more

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  • Audubon's Birds

    Audubon’s ambitious project to paint all the birds of North America resulted in a work that represents one of the greatest advances in ornithology. Not only did he identify new species, he also depicted birds within their natural habitat and in vivid poses. This impressive collection ranges from the Greater Flamingo and Bald Eagle to the Carolina parakeet. Audubon describes every species in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus