Product Description: Julie Spiedel's bronze and stone sculptures loom large over their human viewers, their tall stature reflecting her love of ancient monuments and totems, their heavy mass often pierced and punctured by defiant holes, their geometric sections, sliced coils, facets and hard edges softened by texture and exquisite patination...read more

Product Description: Think “Roy Lichtenstein” and you probably conjure up comic strip-based paintings and the colorful dots that comprise them. Lichtenstein intended his now iconic depictions of characters in tense, dramatic situations as commentaries on modern man's plight, in which the media--magazines, television and advertisements--shapes everything, including our emotions...read more

Product Description: Published in conjunction with a 2000 exhibition originating at the University Art Museum, U. of California-Santa Barbara. Lundgren (1857- 1932), Santa Barbara's most distinguished early 20th-century artist, is best known for images of the desert in which his remarkable use of color convey a particular glow characteristic of western light and landscape...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nonfiction: exhibition catalog

Product Description: Based on extensive archival research, this book explores the origins and development of the lit de justice, a special session held by the king of France in the Parlement of Paris, the highest court of law in the kingdom. The conclusions presented differ greatly from those that are currently accepted...read more