C/L Pocket Book: Garden Flowers

Book Description

Whether focusing on deadheading or disbudding techniques to produce abundant flowers, cutting back in preparation for winter, clipping fruit trees for increased yield, or shaping topiaries, this book spells out each lesson in detail. The drawings demonstrate the correct approaches to this essential process, and color photographs display precisely pruned plants.

Customer Reviews:

Pruning Bible.......2006-07-22

I have a large library on Gardening and design and this is the book I turn to with all my pruning questions. I cant say I agree with the previous reviewer. Whether novice or experienced I think there is a wealth of information in this text for anyone interested in expanding your knowledge on pruning. I do not have a degree in botany or a degree for that matter and found the book well written easy to understand, precise and to the point. I highly recommend this book.

Stunning Tome .......2005-02-28

What a magnificently high brow review of the subject of pruning.

If you can understand what these highly educated folks are talking about then you will not need this book.

The wonderfully proper English manner of only indexing by Latin names, colorful use thereof throughout with only minor mention of common names renders this tome utterly useless to the lay gardener.

An advanced degree in botany is required to fully grok what they attempt to convey.

Shun this item. Wait for a revised version that makes this a useful book vs. the current flogging of hard won degrees.

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Flower Mazes (Activity Book)
Peter M. Spizzirri
Manufacturer: Spizzirri Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0865450587

The Flower Women: The Maze of Maal Dweb: The Alien Worlds Series, Volume II (Unabridged)

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The Flower Women: The Maze of Maal Dweb: The Alien Worlds Series, Volume II (Unabridged)
Clark Ashton Smith
Manufacturer: audible.com
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Download
ASIN: B000LE16MQ

An Educational activity-coloring book of flower mazes / created by Peter M. Spizzirri (A learning experience)

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An Educational activity-coloring book of flower mazes / created by Peter M. Spizzirri (A learning experience)
Peter M Spizzirri
Manufacturer: Spizzirri Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Moon Metro Montréal is the definitive guide to the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels that Québec's most metropolitan city has to offer. With vivid color photos and discreet fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods, this sleek guide highlights Montréal’s top sights as well as the spots only the locals know about. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro Montréal shows visitors where to dine in Plateau Mont-Royal, grab a cocktail in Vieux-Montréal, shop at the boutiques in Centre-Ville, or take in a performance just outside the Quartier Latin. Moon Metro guidebooks take urban travel to a new level with an innovative fusion of style and function, and hip insider advice.

Moon Metro Montreal: Unfold the City (Moon Metro)

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Excellent Travel Book, A Must For Montreal!

Moon Metro Montreal: Unfold the City (Moon Metro)
Avalon Travel Publishing
Manufacturer: Avalon Travel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1566917468

Book Description

With Moon Metro Montreal, you can find the hottest French fusion cuisine, the hippest entertainment, and the most talked-about attractions in the second-largest French-speaking city in the world. The newest destination in the Moon Metro series, this sleek guide profiles the best of the city, combining selective color photographs and listings of the hottest sights, shops, restaurants, amusements, and hotels with discreet, laminated, fold-out maps detailing all the must-see neighborhoods. Moon Metro Montreal gives all the inside information on making a pilgrimage to the stunning Oratoire St. Joseph, exploring the designer showcases and boutique hotels of Vieux Montreal, and shaking it all out in one of Plateau Mont-Royal's trendiest nightclubs. Clean, concise, and compact, Moon Metro Montreal is the definitive guide to the city's urban mystique.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Travel Book, A Must For Montreal!.......2005-10-22

This is a great book for people of all ages. It details the main attractions with great maps on how to get there. The subway map in the back helped out so much, and I didn't look all touristy with it. Its very descrite and light. I highly reccomend this book for first time visitors. Im not very good with directions, but if you have someone else drive while you figure out where you are on the map, its pretty simple. Plus it has a little section of French words to help you get around the city! The only problem we came upon was figuring how long it would take to get to the sites, just make sure you have plenty of time.

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All Cloudless Glory, The Life of George Washington, Volume 1-From Youth to Yorktown, Volume 2-Making a Nation
Harrison Clark
Manufacturer: Regnery
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000WJOSFM

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Find another biography of Washington

Straight facts, verbatim words from the man, himself.

Searching for a good book on Washington - don't buy this one

woman seeking a better book on George Washington!

Great Information, But A Clumsy Format

All Cloudless Glory, Volume Two: The Life of George Washington Making a Nation (All Cloudless Glory)
Harrison Clark
Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 0895264455

Book Description

Volume Two takes the nation's first president from the end of his career as a great general, through his final days at Mount Vernon, to the often tumultuous years of his presidency.

Customer Reviews:

Find another biography of Washington.......2006-04-16

In every respect, except for the subject, this book fails to earn your hard earned dollars. Poor editing, dull writing, and a lack of insightful analysis combine to eliminate this work from my suggested reading list. If it were not for a commitment of mine to finish every book I begin, then I would have stopped slogging through Clark's book around page twenty. My suffering reached its zenith when I read the subtitle he chose for a section, "General Howe Funks Out." This subtitle was only slightly worse than, "Washington is liked." With subtitles like these I seriously considered breaking my rule of completing every book I read. Nevertheless, the numerous passages Clark quotes from Washington's papers and diary entries give the book some merit; Washington himself could redeem the worst of books. But, why wade through Harrison's tiresome prose when you could simply read George Washington's diaries and gain all the merit while losing all the dross?

Straight facts, verbatim words from the man, himself........2003-11-02

Not only did I read this book, Vol 1 of 2, but I read Vol 2, as well. The first is "From youth to Yorktown" the second is "Making a Nation." This is not just a read, but a study of Washington with a vast quantity of verbatim correspondence from and to the man himself. Great insight into the inner man, how he thought, the deeds, the challenges he and his peers faced. Read these two volumes, cross-reference with other works, and you'll have a much enriched appreciation for the father of our country. Great Read/Study. If you like factual history, Enjoy!

Searching for a good book on Washington - don't buy this one.......2002-09-17

I am under the belief that the people that wrote favorable reviews for this book were related to Harrison Clark (the author).

Although the book contains a lot of great information, the format, the grammar, and the lack of good maps limits the readers understanding.

format - there were times when the text was so disjointed that I had to reread sections several times and sit down with pen an paper to map out his ideas.

grammar - the author, for example, will tell a story about several men. When continuing the story about one man specifically Harrison will refer to the person as "him" without letting the reader know which of the men to whom he is making the reference.

maps - The author refers to a lot of places, but doesn't map them out so it is hard to gain an understanding of what is happening in the book.

If you haven't purchased this book - don't. Given Harrison's creditials this book is a disappointment.

woman seeking a better book on George Washington!.......2002-09-17

I found this author to be a very cumbersome writer. He delivers a lot of great information, but often in a scattered, non grammatically correct format. This has caused me to reread sections of the book and make assessments about what the author is attempting to convey. For example, the author could be telling a story about 3 men and then continue talking only about one of them - but never tells the reader about which man he is speaking....he only refers to the man as "him". For a man of his credentials, I am really disappointed.

Great Information, But A Clumsy Format.......2000-05-05

The first of Harrison Clark's two-parter on George Washington focuses on Washington's life and career up through 1781, and this volume closes with the victory at Yorktown that effectively ended the American Revolution.

I would take issue with the Book Description (above) which describes the main character in this book as the "youthful Washingon, one not transformed into the dignified figure we associate with our first president." While Washington does not become president at any point in these pages, all the traits that we look for in Washington -- the dignified figure, master politician and diplomat, and inspirational leader -- are already in well in place by the final third of this book. One factor that practically leaps off the pages is the all-out adoration that men and women alike, regardless of their place in society, felt for the man. Clark lets those who saw and interacted with Washington do the talking through their letters or diaries, and Washington's charisma shines brightly from these pages.

Clark has chosen to let Washington and his contemporaries tell the story of Washington's life and career through their own writings, and it would be a welcome choice but for one thing -- the book is organized so clumsily as to become disjointed. Rather than edit and organize the various writings into a narrative, Clark instead divides each chapter up into what I can only think to describe as a series of short vignettes.

For example, chapter 19, "Cambridge and Boston," is broken up into 11 smaller parts, some of them only half a page long. It makes progress rather like reading a college textbook, with each section broken into smaller subsections, separated by its own little bold-faced headline ("The Vanishing Army"). Clark does tend to group events into short pieces that make sense on their own, but lack the context of the larger story.

Clark wisely spends most of his time in this book outlining Washington's career in the Continental Army, but it is sometimes difficult to get an appreciation for the battles and skirmishes Washington fought because the maps of the battle sites are almost completely useless. The map of the 1776 New York Campaign, for example, is difficult to align with almost anything in the text.

It's a shame that Clark has chosen such a floppy format in which to present his information, because there's some really first-rate stuff in here (the chapter on Benedict Arnold's treason is a highlight of the book, although it, too, gets bogged down in some disjointed narration). If you've not had the opportunity to read Washington's own letters from this period, Clark provides you with lots of samples of Washington's writings which, by themselves, make this volume worth owning. But if you're looking for an easily accessible, readable biography, this one probably isn't for you.

Five stars for wealth of information presented, but only one star for the format, bringing this one down to a three.

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In his senior year at UC Berkeley, author Mark Llewellyn Hall comes down with a mysterious illness. His quest for a cure forces him to completely transform his life, which ultimately becomes the key to his miraculous recovery.

Written in a young, alternative voice that weaves powerful prose with original poetry, "Dazed and Fatigued in the Toxic 21st Century" reveals a remarkable story of determination and personal insight, that sheds new light on what it means to grow up and live in today's toxic age.

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A great read!.......1998-12-23

The author tells a great story - more than just his struggles with chronic fatigue sydrome. His `Kerouacesque', rythmic-tempo writing style mirrors the cyclic ups and downs of his journey towards discovery and self actualization. A story all adults reflecting on their college/post-college years will be able to identify with.

A remarkable story of courage and personal transformation!.......1998-12-19

What most impressed me about this book were the incredible insights author, Mark Hall, revealed into his experience of growing up in today's increasingly toxic age, the language he uses to carry the reader through some deeply intimate settings, and the hurdles he overcomes in his miraculous recovery from a very mysterious illness.

His story was so fascinating, I read the book in less than a week. I recommend it to anyone!

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Finally a Book with the AIDS given clearly

Wonderful Read! Great Photography!

Very easy read; great philosophy

The Best Classical inhand principles so far!

Training the Horse in Hand: The Classical Iberian Principles
Alfons J. Dietz
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Showing & Training | Horses | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
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ASIN: 1592287069

Book Description

An illustrated handbook on training the dressage horse on the lunge line and long reins in the classical Iberian and Viennese styles.

Customer Reviews:

Book Review.......2007-10-10

Excellent book, but not for a beginner. It doesn't go into very deep detail, so you do need some lounge line knowledge to really understand what the author is talking about.

Finally a Book with the AIDS given clearly.......2007-07-21

Finally! A book on in hand training and how to take the movements from the ground to mounted training. And a real explanation of each step for teaching the Spanish Walk (among many other movements) to a green horse. This is a book we'll return to again and again.

Wonderful Read! Great Photography!.......2007-03-09

Classical training -past present and future! This book would be interesting even if I wasn't trying to learn discrete training methods.

Very easy read; great philosophy.......2007-02-06

I loved this book! I normally use books like this as a sleep aid, but this one kept me awake and interested the whole way through. This guy has a very easy and straight forward way of explaining these complicated concepts as well as instructing the reader to watch for the horse's natural ability. Because the whip needs to be used on the legs of the horse for the more advanced moves, he constantly reminds the reader that these lessons need to be applied with patience and kindness, and to praise the horse for the slightest attempt.

If you have a horse built for extreme collection and want to try something different, this book is for you.

The Best Classical inhand principles so far!.......2005-10-12

This is a great book for people who want to learn classical in-hand principles using Iberian methods and the methods used by the SRS.

It's the best book I've seen so far on the topic of inhand schooling from novice through to advanced levels.

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Beautiful!

Easy to follow and inspiring

The Art of Fabric Collage: An Easy Introduction to Creative Sewing

Artsy and eclectic and accessible to all

Adventure in Stitch-Wishery

The Art of Fabric Collage: An Easy Introduction to Creative Sewing
Rosemary Eichorn
Manufacturer: Taunton
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1561585858
Release Date: 2003-02-15

Book Description

Fabric collage, which was developed by author Rosemary Eichorn, is an inspiring quilting method that allows crafters to experiment with color, design, and fabric while learning to sew. This inspiring, innovative method for the beginning sewer includes complete, easy-to-follow instructions and dozens of beautiful color photographs of finished pieces. Several surface design techniques are explored, including free-motion stitching, soft-edge applique, and continuous-strip prairie points.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful!.......2007-07-03

A lovely book to look at and be inspired. Lots of photos of very original work, unique projects for wearable art.

Easy to follow and inspiring.......2007-02-24

This book is a crash course in Rosemary Eichorn's fabric collage techniques. If you read it carefully, you will be able to recreate all her projects, or use that knowledge to further your own designs in fabric. Her instructions are clear and generous. It's an inspiring book. The photos are clear and well done.

The Art of Fabric Collage: An Easy Introduction to Creative Sewing.......2007-01-10

The best manipulated fabric book I own. I read it cover to cover because I was interested in every page. She took the time to teach many different facets of sewing, fabrics, colors and many techniques. I belong to a Wearable Art Group and all I do is rave about this book. Her patterns are very good also.

Artsy and eclectic and accessible to all.......2006-07-20

Rosemary's designs are stunning in their originality. When I first saw this book, all I could do was study all of the pictures over and over. These garments were just my style, and I almost put the book down, because surely they would be too difficult for a beginning sewer. Then as I started scanning her project guidelines, I was so pleased to see that while her finished garments look quite complex, her techniques are really deceptively uncomplicated and any sewer of any skill level who enjoys art to wear should add this book to their library.
You can be as exuberant and over the top as you like using Rosemary's techniques, or you can go for a more monochromatic look with simpler, fewer shapes, and both looks would be stunning and best of all completely unique to you.
One of the best things I learned using this book was about choosing colors using her design system. Find a fabulous print that you just love and look at the selvedge edge - the printers' registration marks islolate each individual color used to build the print. Use these marks when looking for supplemental fabrics, and you are on your way!

Adventure in Stitch-Wishery.......2006-07-02

This book purports to be a guide to imaginative sewing - which it is - but it is much, much more. I found it to include some of the best instructions for fitting garments and adjusting patterns which I've seen anywhere.

Generally it combines free-sewing quilting techniques with clothing design, but contains innovative ideas which far outreach the book's modest premise.

If you enjoy clothing design, go for it!

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"Olmsted the man belongs to his own time, but his work and words continue to have meaning today... The editors are preserving a life and a work instructive for the future as well as of the past." -- Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Book Description

Packed with inspiring ideas and tips that can be used with any curriculum and on any budget, Homeschooling the Child with Asperger Syndrome explains how to design a varied study programme built around the child's own interests, making use of simple material as well as computers and on-line resources. Parents planning to homeschool their child with Asperger Syndrome will appreciate Lise Pyles' encouraging and practical advice, including step-by-step instructions on how to assess and improve body language and social skills, accommodating the child's need for ritual or perfectionist tendencies, and how to develop handwriting and coordination skills.

Customer Reviews:

Like talking to a friend.......2007-08-25

I am reading my way through this book. It's been great to receive confirmation that a lot of the things that I'm doing are right on. There aren't too many people I can talk to about Asperger's Syndrome. This book gives me ideas and resources that are quite helpful. Another home school mom actually referred me to this book. Asperger's Syndrome is a fairly new diagnosis, so I expect that more will be known and written about it in the next 10 years.

She Hits the Nail on the Head Time and Again.......2007-02-20

The author, Lise Pyles, and I have known each other most of our lives. We were best friends in elementary school and lived just across the street from each other. Interestingly, we both had children diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, which kind of makes me wonder about whether environmental factors might contribute to the rise of this condition, since we both drank the same water growing up.

Lise and I lost touch throughout much of our adult lives, but when we reconnected some years ago, she was a wonderful source of support to me while I was homeschooling my daughter. (My kid is the one in the book who loved mules, when all the other little girls were into horses.) Every time I would email Lise, wondering whether I was doing the right thing or if I was on the right track, Lise would write back with positive observations that I had not been able to make myself. That's because I was in the thick of it--the everyday challenges of homeschooling made it hard for me to step back and make observations about the overall progress that was happening.

What I loved about Lise's book when it was later published is that it was just like the actual conversations we'd had, by email and in person, about homeschooling an Aspy. She is a practical, down-to-earth person who can wisely see how Asperger kids are able to flourish when they're taught at home, without the distractions, transitions, and other challenges that occur at school.

I'm happy to report that after about five years of homeschooling, my daughter was able to handle the social challenges of attending a private alternative school. The years when we home schooled prepared her for going out into the larger world. In her school, where they practice democratic decision-making and where students initiate their own learning experiences, my daughter has continued to grow socially. As with many Asperger kids, we never had to worry about my daughter's academic abilities, but we did wonder if she would be able to stand being in a room full of other people, and now she can do that and fully participate in school meetings. She has important jobs at school and at home, and we don't really worry about whether she'll be able to function as a working adult in a few years.

Lise's earlier book, "Hitchhiking Through Asperger Syndrome," also helped prepare me for the possibility that some years it may be better to home school my daughter and other times it may be better for her to be in a school setting. That's what I like about Lise's practical approach and advice. She advocates that you stay in tune with your child's needs and continue to evaluate how to get those needs met. I think this is a realistic approach, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution for how to educate your child.

Absolutely fantastic.......2005-08-16

It is hard to believe Lise Pyles packed so much into such a thin little book. She expertly balances the personalized POV of a mother who homeschooled her Asperger-affected son for several years with the POV of a self-taught expert on raising kids with Asperger's. The book itself has a very conversational and personal style, sympathetic to the parent's concerns without ever being patronizing.

The book is not comprehensive about any one particular topic, but gives practical and diverse starting-off points for many issues facing AS-affected homeschooling families, including tackling the mindset of teaching the "whole child" instead of just academics, how to choreograph tailored social opportunities for all ages and gauge their successes, childhoood depression vs. AS kids' real need for decompression and heaps of alone-time, how to keep a proper perspective and avoid burnout, how to model social skills in everyday situations, the concept of "learning styles" through the lens of Asperger's and how AS kids employ them in slightly different ways, lists of practical life-skills and social skills at various age and developmental levels, special issues to consider when homeschooling an AS child, lists of web sites that help with teaching face recognition/ idiom use/ communication/ "sensory diets," brief curriculum reviews, and many other subjects.

Again, it is amazing that so much information was successfully packed into such a slim volume. The author achieves this by employing the frequent use of well-organized and well-conceived bullet point lists, and the nearly dozen appendixes are a wealth of AS-specific information not just for American homeschoolers but for families in Australia, the UK and Canada as well.

Aside from the concise and robustly practical nature of the information in this book, what I found most helpful is the positive and upbeat point of view of Pyles herself. In every chapter, she includes real-life success stories, including her own as well as that of 40 other AS-affected homeschooling families. But the real boon of these is that she gradually redefines what "success" really means - not the best grades or the most awards or anything like that, but that even things that look like "failures" on the outset can be viewed as successes with just a slight attitude shift. For example: A trip to the museum that ends in a meltdown after an hour. The meltdown might be perceived as a failure at first, but the fact that a sensory-sensitive child survived an hour at a noisy, confusing museum is a success. Nuggets like this are peppered throughout the book. I suppose she is "modeling" what it looks like to turn lemons into lemonade. =)

This book has changed my entire perspective on raising and educating an Asperger-affected child entirely at home, 100% for the better and with great heaps of optimism. I am now going to order her other books, and hope that she knows how much her work has helped people.

Very helpful and easy to read.......2004-09-11

I work with a child who has Aspergers and found this book to be invaluable. Lisa Pyles has put together a very informative collection of information, tips, and strategies that will likely be helpful to anyone who is working or living with an Aspergers child. Strategies involving utilizing and capitalizing on the child's particular area of interests were particularly helpful to me. I look forward to future texts by this author as I plow through the joys and challenges of knowing my Aspergers student, I can use all the help I can get!

Book Description

This lavishly illustrated book presents the first complete overview of the life, art, and times of the quintessential Impressionist. Tucker, one of our foremost authorities on Monet, offers a striking new view of the artist, showing him to be a far more complicated figure than previously acknowledged, fiercely competitive and ambitious, as well as sensitive and inventive.

Customer Reviews:

Monet.......2000-09-17

i thought that this was a great book. it was wonderfully written, giving you a new understanding of the life of a great artist. not only was the book well writen but it was also full of hundreds of great recreations of monets best work.

Excellent!.......1999-02-24

This book gives a very good over view of his life and work. What he went through to get to where he became well known. This books is well illustrated with work that is not well known and several of his more well known work.

Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet

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Come Visit Beautiful French Landscapes
A spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history

Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet
Paul Gauguin , Karen Haas , Sue Welsh Reed , Fronia Wissman , Camille Pissarro , Anne Havinga , Paul Cezanne , Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Charles-Francois Daubigny , Paul Huet , Jean-Francois Millet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Edgar Degas , Claude Monet , Odilon Redon , Vincent van Gogh , George T.M. Shackelford , Fronia E. Wissman , and Karen E. Haas
Manufacturer: MFA Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0878466460
Release Date: 2002-09-02

Book Description

This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at L'Estaque, and Monet's Rue de la Bavolle, Honfleur. As is often the case, however, some of the most wonderful things to see are also the least expected: rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous works by some of their lesser-known but equally important contemporaries. Unlike previous books on the topic, Impressions of Light presents a unique and stunningly complete group of work that introduces a new level of complexity into the discussion of French landscapes. Rather than considering the landscape as a steady, linear development and the product of a single medium, it takes into account the many crosscurrents and intersecting developments in French art, from the Barbizon school through the post-Impressionist period. In addition, it studies the landscape in a variety of media--painting, prints, and photography--exploring both the individual artists' perceptions and the ways in which they influenced each other. With over 80 paintings and 70 works on paper from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collections, and published to accompany a major exhibition, Impressions of Light encompasses more than 100 years and 56 artists working in a dozen different media. It holds the broadest possible view, yet never loses sight of the extraordinary intricacy that makes the landscape so enduringly appealing.

Customer Reviews:

Come Visit Beautiful French Landscapes.......2003-06-21

The book Impressions of Light by George Shackleford et al is a companion book to an art exhibit of works from Boston's Museum of Fine Art. The paintings are landscapes created by France's greatest nineteenth century painters and photographers. Most of the painters are Impressionists but others schools are represented as well. The book also contains sketches which were part of the exhibit. The sketches, as well as the written commentary which accompanies many of them, allows the reader to better understand the creative process of the painters. The factual information in the book is very extensive and helps the readers see more in the works than normally meets the eye. Perhaps what is most interesting about this book and the collection of paintings and photographs included it is the plethora of lesser known works by these great artists. Readers, especially those who have been fortunate to view the exhibit, will be transported to the settings of these great works and gain a deeper appreciation of these great artists and photographers.

A spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history.......2002-11-15

Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet is a lavishly, richly, spectaculrly beautifully, illustrated art history showcasing one hundred years of French art and 56 French artists. Included area wealth of rare and unusual monotypes by Degas, three states of a softground etching by Pissarro, and numerous illustrative works by lesser-known by equally significant contemporaries. Of particular interest is the attention paid to intersecting developments in French art from the Barbizon school through post-Impressionism. Enhanced with more than 80 paintings and 70 works on paper drawn from the MFA collections, showcasing the French landscape through painting, prints, and photography, Impressions Of Light deftly explores individual artists' perceptions as well as the manifold ways that influenced each other. Impressions Of Light will prove to be a welcome and much appreciated contribution to Art History collections in general, and 19th Century French landscape art and photography in particular.

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Beautiful Garden-Beautiful Photographs
A breathtakingly beautiful compendium

Stephen Shore: The Gardens At Giverny
Gerald Van der Kemp , and Daniel Wildenstein
Manufacturer: Aperture
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0893811130
Release Date: 2005-06-15

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A Colorful Photographic Tribute to the Gardens Celebrated in Monet's Paintings

Claude Monet found inspiration in the rose-covered trellises, the wild ramble of nasturtiums, and the idle drift of water lilies in the gardens of Giverny outside Paris. So, too, did Stephen Shore, who photographed the gardens one hundred years later, upon their painstaking restoration to the state they had enjoyed during Monet's lifetime.

Originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art to photograph the renaissance of the gardens, Shore visited Giverny over a period of six years beginning in 1977. Going before dawn and leaving after dusk, visiting in different seasons, he came to know the gardens in all the moods and textures that nurtured Monet.

"With the sensitivity of a poet, Stephen Shore has given a new interpretation of this garden, which so enchanted Claude Monet," writes Gerald Van Der Kamp, the man in charge of spearheading the careful revival of Monet's beloved gardens. Shore's uncompromising fidelity to both the gardens' plenitude and his desire to present the abstract beauty of nature results in exquisitely serene photographs that express the essence of Giverny.

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Beautiful Garden-Beautiful Photographs.......2003-03-16

This is a great artist's amazingly beautiful garden. And the photographs are not just pretty pictures of flowers, but are full of emotion.

A breathtakingly beautiful compendium.......2001-03-16

Stephen Shore's The Gardens At Giverny: A View Of Monet's World is a breathtakingly beautiful compendium of forty four-color photographs inspired by the paintings and subject matter of Claude Monet and a celebration of the restoration of the gardens at Giverny, Paris. Here are sumptuous images reflecting the many moods and textures of an inspired and inspiring landscape. A superbly presented work of landscape photography as art, The Gardens At Giverny is also available in hardcover (0-893781-113-0, $40.00) which would be the preferred recommendation for academic and community library photography book collections.

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A lovely book

Monet's London
Jennifer Hardin , Prof. John House , Frederick Simpson Coburn , Andre Derain , Joseph Pennell , James Whistler , and Claude Monet
Manufacturer: Snoeck Publishers, Ghent
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ASIN: 9053495452
Release Date: 2005-04-15

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Description: Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames intimately explores Expressionist Claude Monet's London series of paintings, especially those that immortalized the Thames River. In this volume we are invited to explore the scope of the socio-cultural context of that time, through the works of Monet's contemporaries: Derain, Coburn, Fenton, Pennell, and Whistler, to name a few. In the latter half of the 19th century, London, specifically around the Thames, had become a seductive urban landscape--a place that encouraged artists to create. Not only does Monet's London document an important exhibition, but it is also the first publication to thoroughly document and discuss the artistic and cultural context of Modernist London (1859-1914), with special emphasis on the visual power of the Thames River.

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A lovely book.......2005-10-19

If you have an interest in Monet or London this is a wonderful book to add to your collection. Even if you haven't been fortunate enough to see the exhibit, this book is still very much worth having. The pictures are beautiful, and you can really get a feel for the time in which they were painted.

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Landscapes from Brueghel to Kandinsky
Wenzel Jacob , Simon Schama , Thomas Llorens , Pieter Brueghel , Frederic Edwin Church , John Constable , Claude Lorrain , Jacob van Ruisdael , Wassily Kandinsky , Claude Monet , and Vincent van Gogh
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ASIN: 3775711074
Release Date: 2002-02-02

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Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in. Northern Europe gave rise to both the wide, atmospheric spaces of Brueghel's morality tales and to the moody, dramatic depictions of nature found in Jacob Ruisdael's canvases. The 18th century produced idyllic landscapes like Lorrain's that were heavily influenced by courtly ideals, as well as heroic typographies from the New World by Heade and Church. Constable's and Courbet's scenes revealed a conscious, realistic return to nature, while Monet painted her in all her light-infused, impressionistic glory. Thick swirls of emotional isolation and individualism wind around the fields and night skies of Van Gogh's canvases while colorful patterns delineate the Tahitian waters and beaches where Gauguin searched for purity. Outstanding works by Watteau, Canaletto, Picasso, Nolde, and Kirchner cover even more ground. More than 500 years of landscape paintings create the territories that wind their way through this lushly illustrated book, reflecting changes in the way landscapes have been depicted but also understood, as places we not only live in and colonize but also dream about, abandon, transform, and return to--and as places that exist without us as well.

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Monet: His life and complete works
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Claude Monet (Life & Times)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926) spent most of his career painting his own spontaneous impression of nature. He gave the title of Impressionism to the school of art he created together with Manet, Renoir, Pissaro, Caillebotte and Sisley. Today, Claude Monet belongs to the classic painters of all times: not only was he the most important of the impressionists, he is undoubtedly one of the greatest of his profession. Paul Cézanne paid him the most telling compliment: 'Monet is an eye, the most wonderful eye since there have been artists.' The man Monet, however, has remained hidden behind the work of the artist, despite the fact that the man left numerous autobiographical notes about himself, which together with other contemporary sources, paint the picture of a strong yet contradictory character. Monet united in himself many admirable but also less pleasant features: He could be at the same time depressed and euphoric, stingy and extravagant, opportunistic and unyielding, obstinate and compromising, selfish and utterly selfless. After the young artist had ambitiously planned his career, fame - when it eventually came - did not mean that much to him. The well-documented history of Impressionism will not be re-drawn here. It is the man and the artist Monet who will be critically portrayed and who will become more tangible and real to the reader. This new biography sheds light on the man and places him in context as a sensitive artist of his time.

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Claude Monet (Life and Work of)
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