3 comments about The Most Special Day of My Life: Works by Rob Clayton & Christian Clayton.

1. Beautiful book full of colorful artwork. Let your imagination run wild! Love this well done and wonderful!



2. This is an incredible collection of exremely excellent inspiring art. It is beautifully printed and designed. You can spend hours looking at the pictures and wondering what is going on in the artist's head or just making up your own stories.



3. This book is one of the finest art books I've ever purchased. The printing is excellent, the art is the best collection of the Clayton Brothers work that I've seen. The reading is insightful and well thought out. Even if you have never seen the Rob or Christian's work you still need this book.

No comments about Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed.

2 comments about Westchester: The American Suburb.

1. At first glance Westchester: The American Suburb might seem a narrow focus on one small American community with interest limited to New York residents; but the focus on Westchester as a typical American suburb offers wider-ranging insights than one would think, and was designed to compliment a major exhibition at the Hudson River Museum. Leading historians and experts pair photos, paintings, maps and other images with discussions of key themes of Westchester legacy, following the amenities which have made suburban life possible and considering the suburban house as a new focal point for family and community alike. Such a life's representation in film, media and the arts is also reviewed in the course of Westchester: The American Suburb, while a centerfold of color photos adds to the attraction.



2. Westchester: The American Suburb tells the story of a quintessential American suburban county. The book, with various chapters by various experts, focuses on different aspects of suburban life, including history, landscape, allure, neighborhoods, housing, highways, diversity, representation in fiction, domesticity, and shopping. The chapter on the 1947 establishment of the country's first shopping mall is especially compelling, given the growth of suburban shopping and the spread of shopping centers and big box stores. Written in very accessible style, it is nonetheless an extremely important source for scholars of suburbia.

No comments about History Curatorship.

No comments about Before 1948: American Paintings in Georgia Collections.

2 comments about Blaue Reiter Almanac, The.

1. The editors, Kandinsky and Marc, put together this manifesto before World War I. It's an essential document for understanding the artistic ferment in Germany, France and Russia in the early part of the 20th Century.
   
   Marc died at Verdun in 1916; Kandinsky pursued a successful career, and died in Paris during World War II. Both men believed that artists were the spiritual leaders of the future--a belief that still reverberates today.



2. Originally published in Munich in 1912, and now available in English, The Blaue Reiter Almanac is a valuable scrutiny of the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) art movement, which was founded in 1911 by painters Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc and remained active in Europe until 1914. The Blaue Reiter Almanac combines an assembly of short essays with black-and-white reproductions of artwork to offer the reader a glimpse into the methodology, purpose, and essence of this short-lived yet passionate movement. An invaluable addition to modern art history shelves.

No comments about Drawing Is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection.

No comments about Beyond Venice: Glass in Venetian Style, 1500-1750.

No comments about Pride of the Princes: Indian Art of the Mughal Era in the Cincinnati Art Museum.

4 comments about Lowlife Paradise: The Works of Glenn Barr.

1. Glenn Barr!!!!!!!!! Wow this is an awesome book with a collection of his incredible images!!! I'm not positive if Glenn Barr would say who his influence is?? but it seems to me.... to be a Dark side of an old MAD comic book artist named Jack Davis.
   totally incredible!!



2. Glenn Barr is awesome. A truely unique artist. This book seems to cover most of his career and my only complaint is that the book isn't a little bigger. But even that's not enough for me to give it less than 5 stars. Make sure you pickup The Lowlife Companion with this book.



3. This is the very first collection of Glenn Barr paintings in a book! Great reproductions of paintings from one of the very best painters on this planet...I don't know what kind of problem the previous reviewer has with the used space in this book; the "white space" is there FOR A REASON: it's called "good layout/presentation"...anyway, buy this book filled with great unique cartoony paintings...there's nothing like a Glenn Barr-painting! I'm really looking forward to the next Barr-book...



4. this book has art on one page and nothing on the back of the page!its no good.its art on every other page!i don't recommend this book at all!