Provides an account of the last one hundred years illustrated through postcards collected from around the world, offering a glimpse of what daily life was like through the messages enscribed on each card.

Product Description: Most children enjoy drawing and use it to express a wide range of experiences and emotions. Drawing can offer an avenue of expression where words fail. So why do many people stop drawing after the early school years? This is an examination of the early work of John Everett Millais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Michael Rothenstein, Gerard Hoffnung, Sarah Raphael and David Downes to investigate the reasons why these artists were able to sustain and develop their drawing skill and expressive potential while others failed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Art loves music: From the tombs of Ancient Egypt to the late 20th century, painting and sculpture have played their variations on musical themes. Tom Phillips examines masterpieces from the history of the visual arts that have been inspired by music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Spectacular sculptures in wood, bronze, and stone, as well as mural painting, ceremonial pieces, ceramics, jewelry, and textiles provide stunning proof that although these works were not made to be "art," they can be enjoyed by Western viewers purely on their aesthetic merits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Tom Phillips makes a convincing case that America is in the early stages of a spiritual revival which will overshadow anything we have ever seen before in our nation's history.

Product Description: "A maker of  memorable images...Tom Phillips has a range of sympathy which goes beyond the Anglo-American gamut...he is a quintessentialist; a man who likes to reproduce complex and difficult subjects to a magic minimum." —John Russell, The New York Times Tom Phillips is a multi-talented artist whose central passion is language and whose genius lies in his ability to generate images that, while concerned with the structure of ideas, also convey a rich coherence of decoration, eloquence, and sensuality...read more

The complete, translated text of Dante's great masterpiece is accompanied by 139 prints, which provide a visual commentary to the poet's journey through hell

A comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945