Product Description: Canadian artist Evan Penny (born 1953) makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so plainly a demonstration of virtuoso ability that it can literally stop people in their tracks. Modeled with tremendous craftsmanship in aluminium, silicone, epoxy resin and pigments, his freestanding nude figures and portrait heads invite the viewer to examine every fleshy imperfection and intimate crevice...read more

Product Description: In the age of mass media, American culture has displayed an unequaled fascination with both celebrities and disasters. Andy Warhol was one of the first artists to investigate these twin obsessions, beginning in the mid-1960s, as he shifted his practice from hand-painting to the mechanical photo silkscreen process...read more

Product Description: Color field art covers more acreage than you might expect. In this major reappraisal cataloguing an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the definition is extended to include both contemporaneous works in media other than painting and recent iterations by younger artists...read more

Product Description: This 25-year survey of the diverse works of self-taught artist Lonnie Holley consider his painting, sculpture, installation, and performance art in the context of mainstream multimedia work. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, the artist is most celebrated for his large installations created from salvaged materials...read more

Product Description: Through her employment of a variety of media ranging from sculpture to the comic strip, American artist Jessica Diamond has had a consistent interest in wall drawings. Known for wry, incisive texts painted directly on the wall, Diamond continues to use elements of image and text in her work, even as she moves toward an increasingly tactile and sensual approach, as documented here...read more

Product Description: One of the largest works that Stephen Hendee has ever constructed, Ascension is a 40-foot-high colossus that the viewer may walk up, through, and around, entering the space of the sculpture and exploring its multiple light-filled facets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jonathan Lasker Selective Identity

Product Description: * A significant contribution to the understanding of painting today* Writings by established artists, critics, art historians and philosophers* Demonstrates the continuing strength and versatility of painting in today's multimedia age* Paintings extensively illustrated in colour, including a folded colour insert of a unique 15th-century manuscrip...read more