Watch It Grow, Watch It Change

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No matter what your budget or whether it's your first trip or fifteenth, Fodor's Gold Guides get you where you want to go. In this completely up-to-date guide our experts who live in South America give you the inside track, showing you all the things to see and do -- from must-see sights to off-the-beaten-path adventures, from shopping to outdoor fun. Fodor's South America shows you hundreds of hotel and restaurant choices in all price ranges -- from budget-friendly B&Bs to luxury hotels, from casual eateries to the hottest new restaurants, complete with thorough reviews showing what makes each place special. The Smart Travel Tips A to Z section helps you take care of the nitty gritty with essential local contacts and great advice -- from how to take your mountain bike with you to what to do in an emergency. Your personal supply of Post-it? flags makes it easy to mark your favorite listings. Plus, web links, costs, and mix-and-match itineraries make planning a snap.

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Fodor's South America.......2000-04-28

Fodor's "South America" is a comprehensive guide to all 10 countries of that continent, which concentrates on cities and major attractions, in 653 pages. It is arranged logically and uniformly, with an index and table of contents that make it easy to locate information.

The yellow-tabbed pages upfront contain smart travel tips for South America in general, and the book is then divided alphabetically by country, with sections dedicated to 2-7 of each country's major cities and regions. Although it is a good guide for large cities and major tourist sites, it deals with outlying areas with a broad brush, if at all.

Each city or region's section contains extensive listings under the headings of Top Attractions, Lodging, Dining, Museums, Nightlife, Shopping (including flea markets), Outdoor Activities, Day Trips, and those wonderful City Walks that Fodor's designs. Following all of those headings is the "A to Z" section for each city, where one can quickly find information on how to get to hotels from the airport, bus station or port; how to get around within the city; locations and hours for banks, post offices, etc.; tour operators and where to find tourist information.

Listings are of the type that would interest those who enjoy accommodations that are cream of the crop in their price categories, good dining, the arts, and shopping, with cost not being the first consideration.

On the down side, as with any comprehensive guide to a vast area, details are not as extensive as they would be if the entire book were dedicated to one country. However, if you plan to cruise or fly to several South American capital cities and only want to stuff one guidebook in your bag, this is a good bet.

On the other hand, if you dream of off-the-beaten-track places and your budget calls for you to eat, sleep, and travel on a shoestring, or if you're looking for student hangouts and hostels, you should keep looking.

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AN INDISPENSABLE TALE for anyone who has ever succumbed to a pernicious addiction, only to have it consume one's entire existence, the Memoir of a Modern Opium Eater both lifts the reader into the firmament of drug-induced rapture and drags him through the muck of the addict's withdrawals.

In the tradition of the semi-fictionalized confessional such as James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography and Joyce's Portrait of the Artist, McVea's Memoir tells the allegorical story of the modern Opium-Eater: a personality plagued by repetitive mnemonic traumas, redeemed by an "omnipotent anodyne" long thought eradicated from the country, and inevitably crushed by the trappings of his indulgent lifestyle.

Tagging along with him on his journey from "like age naught" through to early adulthood, the reader shares in the narrator's poetically narrated opium-induced ecstasies as well as his nauseatingly vivid descriptions of addictive horrors revealed in the book's final section, "The House of Pain."

As if this book's scenes were not fantastic enough, or its prose not ablaze with linguistic and intellectual fervor, the author makes the complexity of the Memoir all the more incredible by structuring its very plot line and scene sequence on that of Thomas De Quincey's original 1821 classic work, Confessions of an English Opium Eater. De Quincey being well known in his time for his intensive analysis of the subconscious (and opium's hypnotic power over its focus - for good or for ill), these salient aspects lie also at the heart of the Memoir, here retold to a modern audience in metaphorical parallels and a carefully crafted modern vernacular.

Customer Reviews:

Transending the mundane, not for children.......2003-09-17

This is the tale of a young man searching in his average American life for something to set himself apart from the dreary routine of his existance, and finding it in opiates. The narritive is not so much an existential quest as a study in transformation, growth and realization. The protagonist is at once both accessible, as if it could be anyone you know, and also distant. But distant in that dark secret sort of way that seperates the inner lives of each one of us from another.

The booklover should beware as the diction used here can be offputting for casual readers. This appears entirely intentional and seems used to effect the slowing of the mind of the reader by throwing it off the standard turns of phrasing. This device instead sets a frame of reference for getting into the mind of a struggling youth in a very real and personal way. A warning is warranted as this book may touch you and provide the ability to sympathize with those struggling with this particular pathos, which can be dangerous to any right thinking person's wellbeing.

At times it is challanging in its intensity and ferocity and at times sublime in its mystical, almost lyrical articulation. This is a book that any who seek to understand the psychology of an addict would be well served by reading thoroughly and studying in depth. I look forward to more from this author.

The unbearable likeness of being - in a drug way.......2003-04-21

While I've never messed with drugs myself, reading books like this one can really see why a person would yield to them. Mic, the narrator, is a character that you feel is constantly looking for something with real meaning in this world, finding it, then losing it. And with the perpetual losses, as he puts it, he feels he has no choice when he suddenly discovers a way of "charming away those phantom bogeys that beset me." Since the very first part of this book (the "prelude") the sense of loss leaps out at you. While it's subtle at first, talking about parents and growing up in a neighborhood where he has no friends, Mic gradually makes his way through "teenhood" and into adulthood by a constant repetition of gains, losses and escapes (chemical escapes from the pain of the losses). Not to spoil the end, but the reader does get a feeling of hope as he/she finishes up the book. And it's not so much a hope that is black and white (like Mic finally has some great epiphany - nothing cheesy like that), but instead it's more a sense that Mic, through all he's written on the page, has found a way of dealing with the crushing disappointments in life, rather then finding a way to avoid them. This whole aspect of the book is summed up perfectly in a single exchange of dialogue near the end, where Mic is talking to a friend you know he's about to lose. "Mic, do you always get what you want?" "Yes, I do... But I never get to keep it."

Creepy, intelligent & NOT like anything else ever.......2003-04-15

I can sum up this book by saying that it's as if you took a twenty something year old guy off the streets, crammed his head with about a thousand literary references from like recent poetry to plays in ancient german and Italian, then had him sit down to a typewriter and tell an extraordinary story about becoming an opium addict in 21st century america. While checking out books about heroin, I came across this title in my local bookstore. The title stuck in my mind, and by the next night I found myself ordering it here online. When I got it I expected to read a couple chapters a day but wound up reading the whole thing in one wack. While this book is kind of hard reading at the beginning (most because the author writes most of the book in this like street style of talking), it doesn't take long to get sucked into the writer's mind and the story and find yourself like halfway through the thing before you even know it. Told in first person, it chronicles the life of one like lonely street kid who's super bright and follows as he becomes a teenage alcoholic and then an opium addict in his twenties. Most people I tell this to always mention trainspotting and ask if it's like that. I tell them no, it's not like trainspotting at all... it's shorter, much more intelligent, much more readable, it's totally focused on an intividual mind, and it's one of the strangest tales of like modern literature (for its style, its subject matter, and the fact that the actual plot of the book follows a book from the 1800s called Confessions of the English Opium Eaters. This might be the most readable "intellectual" books I've ever read, as it really does challenge the mind and stretch your grasp on the English language and your familiarity with literature references in general. Check it out, and you won't be sorry you did.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, Laura Bridgman, a young child from New Hampshire, became one of the most famous women in the world. Philosophers, theologians, and educators hailed her as a miracle, and a vast public followed the intimate details of her life with rapt attention. This girl, all but forgotten today, was the first deaf and blind person ever to learn language.

Laura's dark and silent life was transformed when she became the star pupil of the educational crusader Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe. Against the backdrop of an antebellum Boston seething with debates about human nature, programs of moral and educational reform, and battles between conservative and liberal Christians, Freeberg tells this extraordinary tale of mentor and student, scientist and experiment.

Under Howe's constant tutelage, Laura voraciously absorbed the world around her, learning to communicate through finger language, as well as to write with confidence. Her remarkable breakthroughs vindicated Howe's faith in the power of education to overcome the most terrible of disabilities. In Howe's hands, Laura's education became an experiment that he hoped would prove his own controversial ideas about the body, mind, and soul.

Poignant and hopeful, The Education of Laura Bridgman is both a success story of how a sightless and soundless girl gained contact with an ever-widening world, and also a cautionary tale about the way moral crusades and scientific progress can compromise each other. Anticipating the life of Helen Keller a half-century later, Laura's is a pioneering story of the journey from isolation to accomplishment, as well as a window onto what it means to be human under the most trying conditions.

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Solid and informative read........2002-10-26

Buy this book before it goes out of print. Get The Imprisoned Guest as well. You won't be disappointed if you have any intrest in this brilliant and spirited lady!

A fine, balanced treatment.......2001-11-27

Freeberg's dual biography of Laura Bridgman and Samuel Gridley Howe is far better reading than one would expect of a revised Ph.D. dissertation. Freeberg is clear in his exposition of philosophic and religious trends, and he is absolutely fair in his of treatment the old Calvinist orthodoxy and the evangelicalism of the Second Great Awakening. Having written a children's story about Laura Bridgman more than twenty-five years ago, I was already familiar with the outlines of this narrative, but I still learned much from Freeberg's study--as for instance, the connection between Unitarianism and phrenology and the robust evangelical reaction to Howe's tentative attempts to play God with Bridgman's soul.

A Really Good Book.......2001-06-28

It's just delightful when something like this comes around. It's a page turner that isn't a paperback mystery. In fact, people who have heard of Laura Bridgman in the first place pretty much know how the story comes out. Freeberg has a taut and clear style that gives the information bones and ligaments, and he has done thorough research. There are photos and copies of things in Laura's handwriting that I have never seen before, and I have been in the field of disability all my adult life. I've read just about everything on Laura Bridgman and the Perkins school.

Freeberg did well in choosing to focus of Laura's education. The book would have been at least three times longer, and probably not as well organized had he tried to cover her entire life in one volume. By sticking just to the subject of her education, though, he shows use the brilliance of her teacher, Howe, who relied on instincts and experience, and made things up as he went along. And we see Laura's mind grow. In our day, the lay person is fairly familiar with the stages of human intellectual growth and development, and it is exciting to see how Laura is remediated for the things she missed because her communication skills were late in coming.

Freeberg is also respectful and gracious to his topic. Laura is a wonderful person in her own right. She is not Helen Keller's shadow. Helen Keller is a once-an-epoch genius. Laura was a bright and friendly woman, and I thank Freeberg for reminding us of this.

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The ultimate deer-hunting companion is back and packed with exciting new monster whitetail stories, useful archery and gun hunting tips, updated state-by-state statistics, fun-to-read tales, and whitetail news. Pope & Young and Boone & Crockett fans will see the latest and highest scoring white-tailed deer taken in North America.

Relied upon by numerous state wildlife agencies, the guide includes the latest state-by-state whitetail trends in the 44 states permitting deer hunting. It also highlights record years, provides contact information, and includes a complete history of harvest numbers.

Hundreds of advanced tips and expert insights give rifle, shotgun, bow, and muzzleloading deer hunters the edge they need to have a successful hunt. These tips and insights cover a huge range of deer hunting topics including ammunition, bow-hunting and muzzleloading equipment, hunting techniques, and personal gear.

• Most recent whitetail hunting facts, tips, stories, and helpful resources

• Hundreds of advanced tips and expert insights for today's deer hunter

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Inspiration from 500 beautiful clay bowls

Inspired!

beautiful simple bowls

Amazingly different

Bowl (n) 1. A hemispherical vessel...

500 Bowls: Contemporary Explorations of a Timeless Design
Lark
Manufacturer: Lark Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1579903622

Book Description

Five hundred inspiring variations on the simple, functional bowl will fire any potter's imagination. Displayed on each page are bowls that reinvent and reinterpret the form, and use techniques from across the globe and through the centuries. More importantly, every piece, such as Kate Maury's wheel-thrown porcelain, Stephen F. Fabrico's slab-built bowl with handles, and Ruchika Madan's stoneware Fruit Bowl, testifies to the artist's boundless inventiveness. Captions give each bowl's size, with details on its material and glazes.

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Inspiration from 500 beautiful clay bowls.......2007-05-14

I'm a clay artist who does hand building...My teacher brought in this book to share with our
pottery class. I and the rest of the class were simply blown away by the originality and brilliance of these clay artists. We spent half the class passing the book around and saying to one anothr "how about THIS one?"
None of us wanted to put the book down and get back to working on our own pieces.

The book is quite reasonable in price and I was so captivated by these beautiful photographs that I went ahead and bought the the other two books in the series which are specific to animals and teapots...The photographs on each page are simply spectacular...memorable....something I wouldn't directly copy in my own work, but much of it is just insipirational...and informative. Description of how the piece was fired...the method for it's execution (whether hand or wheel built). These books are a collection of the most original works I've ever seen. Although I don't build animals of out clay, I'm as thrilled to own each book from this series as I am
"500 Bowls".

Inspired!.......2007-04-04

This book is beautifully photgraphed, like all the 500 series books, and weather you put it on your coffee table or in your studio, it lights up the imagination and inspires the artist.

beautiful simple bowls.......2006-12-06

It is the simplicity of the bowl on the cover that draw us in, though it is difficult, as there is no cover credit in the edition I own, to find who that artist is. Deep inside we find that bowl and another by potter/artist Judy Motzkin. Patient searching pays off. This elegant little book, with this elegant saggar fired bowl on the cover is a treasure.

Amazingly different.......2006-11-13

I am astonished that anyone could find this book a dissapointment! Only, not,when I read the reveiws that were not too great were written by people who wanted a more functional or traditional result,perhaps...
I like it.Once again,this book opened up an area in my own artistic approach-to "think outside the Bowl"! If you are an artist,or sculptor that has been at it a good 10 or 15 years,as I am,and you need a new vien to tap,this is a great book to get.Mostly,I found it treated the surfaces,interior or exterior,like a canvas.not a vessel to be filled with cereal or mashed potatoes,but as an object,to be viewed,and give the onlooker an "eyeful" It's again,one of the best in the lark 500 books.

Bowl (n) 1. A hemispherical vessel..........2005-08-21

I have a hunger for bowls. Objects that can hold other objects, particularly food, fascinate me. This book feeds my hunger with beautiful color photos of more bowls than my brain can hold in one sitting. Bowls that make me laugh, purr, gasp with amazement, and covet. Oh how I covet. Bowls that hold other bowls that hold other bowls...
And for the frustrated potter in me, the information on glazes and firing deepens my appreciation of each and every hemispherical vessel. I'll have this one, and that one, and the little one over there...

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The design of small properties;: A book for the home owner in city and country (The rural science series)
Myrl Elijah Bottomley
Manufacturer: Macmillan Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B00086Z2OA

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Garden Planning for the Small Property.
Jack, Kramer
Manufacturer: Scribner
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0684125137

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Gardening for the Small Property
Jack Kramer
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Small Gardens for City and Country: A Guide to Designing and Planting Your Own Property
Alice Recnagel Ireys
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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New designs of small properties;: A book for the homeowner in city and country
Myrl Elijah Bottomley
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best book for people working with young people in crisis

Appelstein Captures the Essence of Working with Kids

Excellent toolbook to parent troubled kids

No Such Thing As a Bad Kid!: Understanding and Responding to the Challenging Behavior of Troubled Children and Youth
Charles D. Appelstein
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ASIN: 0965983609

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Written specifically for teachers, child and youth-care professionals, and foster parents, No Such Thing As a Bad Kid is packed with information for anyone who lives or works with youngsters at risk. This empowering handbook provides hundreds of hands-on tips and sample dialogues which can help revolutionize your interactions with troubled kids and their interactions with the world. Even parents of children not at risk will benefit from this book.

Customer Reviews:

best book for people working with young people in crisis.......2007-04-11

This book has so much to offer the Youth Worker and Professional person in giving insight into ways to deal with young people and the feeling that also affect you when dealing with young people in crisis

Appelstein Captures the Essence of Working with Kids.......2000-02-21

Whether you are a professional or parent, you will benefit from the insight and pracitcal techniques Charlie Appelstein provides in "No Such Thing as a Bad Kid." Appelstein combines research, experience, and humor in this marvelous work on how to help kids grow and manage their problems. It is hard to believe that a book that is so easy and fun to read could be so helpful. As a therapist and staff development trainer in a residential treatment setting, I use the concepts and techniques in this book EVERY day.

Excellent toolbook to parent troubled kids.......1998-10-21

As a parent of two ADHD children, I found this book to be a milestone as a common sense approach to dealing with troubled kids. Appelstein shares his wealth of experience in working with children from the inside of the parent out. I have already found his insight to be invaluable.

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Coinciding with the 1999 exhibitions of his paintings in Antwerp and London, Anthony van Dyck: 1599-1641 celebrates the 400th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Flemish painter. Van Dyck is perhaps best known for his religious paintings, which are outstanding examples of the Baroque style, and he is also considered one of the greatest portrait painters in an age of exceptional portraitists. He revolutionized royal portraiture in England by introducing more dynamic compositions, often incorporating the dramatic presence of a draped curtain leading out into a natural vista and open skies. Born in Antwerp to a wealthy merchant family, van Dyck began to paint at the age of 10 and had already earned the privilege of studying with Peter Paul Rubens by the time he was a teenager. He shared a workshop with Jan Brueghel the Younger, and his contemporaries included Poussin, Lorrain, and Velázquez. Later he would become court painter for King James of England, as well as for Charles I, and he immortalized their key subjects during the charged era of the English Civil War. He had a special talent for depicting his regal subjects with a relaxed elegance not seen in the more formal portraiture that had preceded him. And his ability to paint sumptuous fabrics is almost unparalleled.

This large, stately, cloth-covered hardback contains over 100 of van Dyck's masterpieces, including rarely seen works. Its 359 pages are lavishly illustrated with quality full-color reproductions, including painting details and preliminary drawings. A chronology, descriptions of each work, and essays by prominent scholars in the field make this the most authoritative volume on the artist to date. --A.C. Smith

Book Description

A beautiful and unprecedented catalogue published for the 400th anniversary of the birth of the prominent 17th century Flemish painter. Elegant and informal portraits, rare mythological and religious paintings, and many seldom-seen works from private collections. This landmark catalogue is published for the 400th anniversary of the birth of Anthony van Dyck, one of the most prominent Flemish painters of the 17th century. These 100 masterpieces showcase van Dyck's elegant and informal portraits, and his rare mythological and religious paintings--including many seldom-seen works from private noble collections, presented here in new photographs. Texts by the most prominent scholars in the field describe van Dyck's early years in Antwerp, when he trained in the studio of Peter Paul Rubens, his later life in Genoa and the influence of Titian's work on his color and composition, and his final years in London as Court Painter to Charles I. This beautiful and unprecedented catalogue--with superb color plates plus details and comparative illustrations, a chronology, and each work's detailed history--will be the last word on van Dyck for the next fifty years.

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing reproductions.......2007-08-14

I was really disappointed when I received the book. Most reproductions are washed out and I kept wondering if I would love this Van Dyck's work any more if his paintings look like that. I've seen many originals and their reproductions in this book are too bad for a serious catalog.

A great catalogue.......2006-09-09

This book presents a great overview of Van Dyck's work. The reproductions are clear, and the commentary is helpful. Brown also provides insightful commentary regarding the influence of Rubens' work on Van Dyck. Highly recommended.

an incredible painter, a fantastic exhibition........1999-11-05

One of the greatest painters of all time is well represented by his greatest paintings in this exhibition and hence - this catalog. Be prepared to be amazed by a painter of prodigious talent.

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Anthony Van Dyck
Arthur K. Wheelock
Manufacturer: HNA Books
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Highly recommended for students of portraiture.
Brilliant!

Anthony Van Dyck: A Life
Robin Blake
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ASIN: 156663282X

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This superb new biography provides the fullest narrative of Van Dyck's life and personality to appear in English. Commonly pigeonholed as a follower of Rubens or as the court painter of the Stuarts, Van Dyck here appears not only as a remarkably individual portraitist but as a fully rounded baroque artist of memorable power. With 32 pages of black-and-white illustrations. A thorough biography...comprehensive and fascinating. --New York Times Book Review

Customer Reviews:

Highly recommended for students of portraiture........2000-05-09

Robin Blake's Anthony Van Dyck could also have been featured in our arts section but is a powerful biographical sketch which should not be missed by any interested in biographical history. Van Dyck was a portrait painter who saw his own works passed over in favor of his contemporaries, although they were compared to Titian and Rubens. Blake examines Van Dyck's life and art with an eye to revealing the underlying influences on his works; in the process imparting a fine bit of history. Recommended for any student of portraiture.

Diane C. Donovan Reviewer

Brilliant!.......2000-04-26

This is by far the best bio on van Dyck in print today. I purchased it a year ago, from Amazon UK, and am very glad to see it available in the States. If you have the catalog from either the recent show in London or the Washington DC show from '90, use the images from that to go with Robin's text and you're in for a real treat. Bravo Robin!

Anthony van Dyck (The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin)

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Anthony van Dyck (The Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin)
Walter A Liedtke
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Van Dyck in England
Oliver Millar
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Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of Paintings

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Could do with some colour

Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of Paintings
Horst Vey , Susan J. Barnes , Nora De Poorter , and Oliver Millar
Manufacturer: Paul Mellon Centre BA
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) is among the greatest portrait painters of all time. The 1990s opened and closed with major exhibitions devoted to his work, and now the long-awaited catalogue raisonné of his painted oeuvre is complete.

A native of Antwerp, Van Dyck also lived and worked for long periods in Italy and England, where his brief, productive life ended. He is best known for his work at the court of Charles I. His full-length portraits of aristocrats in the Caroline court and in Genoa, Antwerp, Brussels, and The Hague influenced the history of Western portraiture into the twentieth century in the work of John Singer Sargent. Handsomely designed and illustrated, the volume includes a reproduction of every known authentic painting by the artist as well as the provenance and the significant facts and literature on each. This catalogue raisonné is, fittingly, the collaborative work of an international team devoted to the study of this major international artist.

Susan J. Barnes, an independent art historian, co-curated a Van Dyck exhibit in Washington, D.C., 1990. Nora De Poorter is director of the Rubenianum, Antwerp. Oliver Millar, Surveyor Emeritus of The Queen’s Pictures, organized an exhibition of Van Dyck’s English work at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1982–83. Horst Vey, former director of the Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, is author of the standard work on Van Dyck’s drawings.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

September Art
672 pp. 450 b/w + 150 color illus. 9 3/4 x 12
ISBN 0-300-09928-2 $175.00sc

Customer Reviews:

Could do with some colour.......2005-08-23

For such a large size book it is very disappointing that there are so few colour images and such as are printed are not on the scale of size that would let the reader revel in the finer detail of Van Dyck's work. It is understandable that the catalogue section of the book was Black & White for reasons of economy, but the preceding pages could have benefited from colour close-ups and full page plates. The book may be useful for a scholar, but it will remain to other books to exemplify the genius of Van Dyck. There is a more affordable and enjoyable option in Christopher Brown's book "Anthony Van Dyck" published by Rizzoli in 1999.

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Anthony Van Dyck
Elbert Hubbard , and Fra Elbert Hubbard
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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ASIN: 1425343392

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THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great: Eminent Painters, by Elbert Hubbard. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766104060.

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Anthony Van Dyck
Arthur K. Jr.; Barnes, Susan J.; Van Dyck, Anthony; National Gallery of Art (U.S.); Held, Julius Samuel Wheelock
Manufacturer: National Gallery of Art
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ASIN: B000MBSW2A

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Anthony van Dyck
Christopher White
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Anthony Van Dyck a Life 1599-1641
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