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	Toulouse-Lautrec: A Life (Phoenix Giants) Debauched aristocrat, cabaret painter, accidental dwarf: Julia Frey's definitive, superbly researched biography strips away the myth of Toulouse-Lautrec to reveal the tortured man beneath. A remarkable and compelling portrait, featuring 135 photos and illustrations. Julia Frey earned her Ph.D. from Yale University. An expert on 19th-century French literature and culture, she has taught at Yale, Brown, Sarah Lawrence, and the University of Colorado; she currently divides her time am...
	Learning from Museums: Visitor Experiences and the Making of Meaning (American Association for State and Local History Book Series) Why do people go to museums and what do they learn there? What roles can museums serve in a learning community? How can museums facilitate more effective learning experiences? John H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking investigate these questions in Learning from Museums. Synthesizing theories and research from a wide range of disciplines, including psychology, education, anthropology, neuroscience and museum research, Falk and Dierking explain the nature and process of learning as it occurs within the m...
	Forts Of The Northern Plains: Guide to Historic Military Posts of the Plains Indians Wars - 51 fort sites in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana - More than 100 photographs and drawings illustrate life at the forts - Directions, visitor information, and nearby points of interest for every site As the first official symbols of U. S. government presence on the Western frontier, the forts of the Northern Plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict. The integral role 51 of those forts played during decades of warfare with the Plai...
	Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna 1575-1725 (Getty Distribution) This catalogue, which accompanies a collaborative exhibition between the Dresden State Museums and the J. Paul Getty Museum that brings together Bolognese Baroque paintings from both Dresden and Southern California public and private collections, provides an engaging survey of one of the most important and influential schools of Italian painting from 1575 to 1725. The exhibition will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from December 16, 2008, through May 3, 2009. The book's essays strive ...
	The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of Ancient Mesopotamia In April of 2003, the world reacted in shock at the news of the looting of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Priceless antiquities, spanning ten thousand years of human history, were smashed into pieces or stolen, and one of the most important storehouses of ancient culture was forever compromised. This exquisitely illustrated volume is a reconstruction in book form of one of the world's great museums, and it stands as the definitive single-volume history of the art and archaeology of ancient Mesopota...
	Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism’s greatest innovators, Josef Albers (1888–1976) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1947). Beginning in the 1930s, Albers and Moholy-Nagy each developed a rigorously abstract language that condensed art to its visual fundamentals: line, color, texture, light, and form. This language experienced a creative explosion during their Bauhaus years, when both artists moved freely ...
	Paint Made Flesh In Paint Made Flesh, expressive figuration is considered as a reflection of artists' responses to such topics as identity, sexuality, and mortality, and as a symptom of a broader spectrum of social and political attitudes shaping Western culture since World War II. It features art from the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, countries that have since the 1950s produced many artists who use paint as a metaphor for flesh in all its aspects. It will also consider contemporary artists whose w...
	Devil Dolls 2 - A Gallery Girls Collection The trip to Hell is paved with so many delightful distractions! Namely - the smokey-eyed seductresses that lead the way to eternal damnation. Ahh...being bad was never this much fun! Our second descent to the lower circles feature the illustrative talents of Perez, DeSimone, Marachi, Sosa, Pelaez, Arantza, and other lost souls. Sinful cover painting by Arantza....
	Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard In this book all the works from the original collection are shown and discussed together for the first time....