Product Description: Images of children and families abound in the works of the French Impressionists, from Claude Monet’s portraits of his young sons to Mary Cassatt’s endearing images of mother and child. In Impressionist Children, Greg M. Thomas offers new perspectives on some of the most famous paintings in art history, explaining how they reflect the dominant social, cultural, and political aspects of Parisian middle-class life in the late 1800s...read more

Product Description: In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of British modernists, a group centered around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and Jacob Epstein. Wagner probes the work of these sculptors, discusses their shared avant-garde materialism, and identifies a common theme that runs through their work and that of other artists of the period: maternity...read more

Product Description: In her two previous books. A Book for My Sister and A Book for My Daughter Pamela Winterbourne demonstrated a gift for finding the essential goodness of family relationships. Here she thanks her mother for her many gifts, and in her thanking she defines the goodness of mothering...read more

Product Description: The powerful spirit of Mother transcends all boundaries of nationality, culture and class. This truth is eloquently expressed in the remarkable images presented here. From heaven to earth the mystique of Mother shines from each page...read more

A beautifully illustrated observance of motherhood and its gifts features the evocative art of Thomas Kinkade as it collects quotes, Bible verses, and poems celebrating mothers and the homes they make possible.

Product Description: Hardcover no dust jacket.1998 64p. 10.25x8.25x0.40 BOOK ABOUT MOTHER'S TENDERNESS COMBINE WITH HEARRTFELT REFLECTIONS TO CREATE A TRIBUTE TO THAT RAREST OF ALL JEWELS..A MOTHER'S LOVE

A selection of the nineteenth-century painter's works reflects the solitary, social, public, and intimate worlds inhabited by the women she knew (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this beautiful gift book, award-winning images of a mother's tenderness combine with heartfelt reflections to create a tribute to that rarest of all jewels...a mother's love.

A tribute to all the remarkable facets of motherhood furnishes verbal and illustrated observations about and meditations on the joys and challenges of being a mother, from the perspective of both men and women, past and present, ranging from Toni Morrison to Washington Irving to Carrie Fisher.

Product Description: "A well-organized, profound case for the reinterpretation of the creative woman in the nineteenth century." --Carol RavenalFocusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Cassatt, Tillie Olsen, and Alice Walker, Van Buren uses present-day critical and theoretical concepts to explore the relations among artists' lives, works, and cultures...read more

Product Description: "A well-organized, profound case for the reinterpretation of the creative woman in the nineteenth century." --Carol RavenalFocusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Cassatt, Tillie Olsen, and Alice Walker, Van Buren uses present-day critical and theoretical concepts to explore the relations among artists' lives, works, and cultures...read more

Product Description: The theme of "God the Mother" is the focus on this autobiographical spiritual journey high-lighted with original four-color paintings.