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Tragic Cavalier: Governor Manuel Salcedo of Texas, 1808-1813
Felix D. Almaraz
Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Defense of the Spanish borderlands in the early nineteenth century was a lost cause. Official neglect, expansionist pressures from the Mississippi Valley, and insurgency threatening from south of the Rio Grande all but guaranteed that these years would be the twilight of Spanish rule in the region. In the face of unrest, decline, and collapse, Governor Manuel Maria de Salcedo carried the Bourbon standard in Texas. Until the appearance of this now classic work by Felix D. Almaraz, Jr., both the general history of the Spanish borderlands in this period and the specific role of Governor Salcedo had received little scholarly attention. Based on letters and documents in the Bexar Archives, Tragic Cavalier offers a historical account of the Mexican independence movement in Texas interpreted from the Spanish perspective. Since its initial publication in 1971, this study has evoked much constructive criticism and commentary. Now graced with new chapter drawings by renowned artist Jose Cisneros, this new edition will continue to inform researchers and students of history on the waning years of the Hispanic frontier.
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This biography offers a profound insight into the inspirational intensity of Kahlil Gibran.
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Essential Gibran.......2002-01-17
Dr. Bushrui is the world's top Gibran scholar. He has done justice to Gibran like no other person in history with this thorough biography. He has succeeded in grasping the historical aspects of Gibran's life, and most importantly, the spiritual essence. I have had the luck and pleasure of hearing Dr. Bushrui speak in person and can say he is a truly amazing orator, poet, and scholar. He lived in Lebanon, like Gibran, and has taught at Universities such as Oxford. This mix of eastern and western culture is the pivotal attribute of anyone who desires to truly understand Gibran.
A wonderful presenter, Dr. Bushrui is captivating.......1999-03-05
Well, I have to admit I have just ordered the book. I haven't read it yet... What I want to share, though, are my impressions from a presentation of Dr. Suheil Bushrui I attended last night. Dr. Bushrui is a man who has the enormous talent to love and inspire. Truly, I envy his students. If the goal of his lecture last night was to inspire more people to read the poetry of Kahlil Gibran, he surely succeeded. He succeeded in sparkling my interest in Arabic poetry and in partucular, the poetry of Kahlil Gibran. More importantly though, he succeeded in making me look at poetry as the point where the truth meets the heart, and at poetry as the path of spirituality to building a world based upon unity in diversity.
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Why do some families have fewer sleep problems than others? What works for most parents most of the time and why?
Parenting is a full-time, twenty-four-hour-a-day job. Nighttime Parenting was written to make that job easier and to help the whole family--mother, father, baby--sleep better. It helps parents understand why babies sleep differently than adults, offers solutions to nighttime problems, and even describes how certain styles of nighttime parenting can aid in child spacing and lower the risks of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Renowned pediatrician Dr. William Sears helps you find a solution to your baby's sleepless nights and offers comprehensive, caring advice on issues such as:
* Where babies should sleep
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* Tips for single parents
* Getting children to bed without a struggle
This newly-revised edition incorporates the latest research on SIDS and its prevention, and is truly a must-have volume for all parents.
"This book belongs on the shelf right next to The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding. It will help all new parents raise happier and more secure children."--Mary White, founding mother, La Leche League (r) International
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Not helpful unless you are breastfeeding.......2007-06-28
This book is helpful for breastfeeding moms, but if you want to do attachment parenting and for whatever reason are not breastfeeding, this book will probably be a big disappointment. The two main suggestions are that you nurse your baby to soothe him/her and you let him/her sleep in your bed. So if you are formula feeding, you probably will find this book not full of solutions for you.
Dr. Sears, please note that not every mother is a birth mother and not every mother has a baby that is able to breastfeed and not every mother breastfeeds, but those mothers still love their babies and want them to have peaceful sleep.
Supports the CO not the SLEEP!.......2006-02-21
I am so glad I read this book because it helps me feel OK about our family bed. HOWEVER I was hoping for some ways to get our baby to sleep better but solutions are sorely lacking. For those I found another Sear's recommendation: The No-Cry Sleep Solution, which supports cosleeping but also offers ways for everyone to get better sleep. If you want your family bed validated this is a great book.
about that one star review.......2005-10-20
**Dr. Sears's strongly suggests: "if you resent it, change it." He also addresses the fact that actual BED sharing does not always work and that there are many other ways to "share" sleep with your child/ren. I highly recommend this book (and the rest of the Dr. Sears Library) to any and all parents of babies and children of all ages.
Nighttime Parenting: How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep .......2005-09-15
This book is very good, I love it
Very helpful book - highly recommended!.......2005-07-16
This book is beautifully written by a man who clearly knows his business and is concerned about the wellbeing and healthy development of children. Both I and my husband read this book and found it to be incredibly helpful.
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Tu Primer Jerbo
Leroy Mervan
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Readers will value this detailed guidance in helping them prepare for success on the practical portion of the cosmetology licensing exam. The discussion of requirements for most states gives future professionals critical exam information, and practical skills areas help future professionals understand their level of psychomotor skills. Worksheets, sample tests, a discussion of common mistakes, and tips and techniques promote confidence on exam day. Readers also will learn how to properly pack kits in preparation for the exam. While the content is deep, the reading is light and easy to follow. And, fictional characters in the text lead the student through the procedures, giving excellent advice throughout.
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Great Help.......2007-09-13
This book is an excellent book for helping someone to pass the stateboard exam. I did pass after reading this book. Do not regret this purchase.
poorley.......2006-03-11
very badley set out,couldnt make out whats going on.a total wast of money &my time.
best cosmetology test prep!.......2005-09-14
This book goes way beyond just the sample questions of other test prep books! It gives an inside look at what the examiners are looking for as well as the most common mistakes students make. It provides a place in each section that the student fills out in order to remember regionally-specific criteria.
It also lists the supplies needed for each part of the exam.
It even goes over how to diminish test anxiety!
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Small Garden Solutions: From Arbors to Awnings, Barbecues to Bird Feeders, Walls to Water Features
Richard Bird
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Make a big impact with your small space! The secret to success: choosing just the right features and doing the most with whatever room you have. With a guide to garden styles, and a list of plants suitable for each one, you'll quickly see which approach works best for you. Select from a wealth of innovative and easily achieved plans--all shown in lush, appealing photographs--for decorative and practical garden embellishments that transform tiny gardens into miniature Edens:
* Foster the illusion of spaciousness with mirrors and trompe l'oeil
* Build arches, arbors, awnings, barbecues, garden furniture, rock gardens, and water features
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From putting in pretty paving to adding soothing scents, you'll create garden miracles!
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Covering subjects caring for plants during vacation-Vines -African Violets-Wall Gardens-Water gardens-Watermelons and much much more
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Arms parents with everything they need to know to fight the pro-standards movements
Parents all across the political spectrum have united on one issue: when it comes to standardized testing, they all lean toward some kind of educational reform. Drawing on her 20 years of classroom experience and enriched by real-life anecdotes, Susan Ohanian's What Happened to Recess, and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? explains the misguided mania for testing children, why a child's success or failure is currently determined by a set of tests, and what parents are doing to change public policy on education. Even children who are able test takers are hurt by the politics surrounding testing. Ohanian's moving insider's view imparts a sense of urgency about the situation of individual children caught on the front line of our treacherous education system. This beacon will inspire parents who are confused, angered, or intimidated by the forces that control their children's education to take action.
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EXCELLENT!! A must read for educators and parents.......2005-02-10
Experiencing frustration with the extreme focus on raising test scores in our public schools today, I went online to see if anyone was writing on the topic. I stumbled upon this book and am SO glad I ordered it. If you, too, have been thinking something's not quite right about this testing craze, you will find your feelings validated and well articulated in this book.
When Kindergarten Becomes "Kinder-Grind".......2003-12-07
WHAT Happened to Recess and WHY are our Children Struggling in Kindergarten? by Susan Ohanian
In his foreword for this book, Alfie Kohn writes Ms. Ohanian is "our archivist of educational absurdities, fearlessly clipping newspapers and trawling the Internet" who "insists that we think about children as children." RECESS is long on documentation of educational absurdities. The bibliography is almost 12 pages of small font and many of the referenced newspaper, magazine, and journal articles can be read on Ms. Ohanian's website. Almost overwhelming!
Ms. Ohanian records students' triumphs and states: "Such triumphs are not objective. They don't appear on standardized printouts, so no high-powered committee on excellence will pay attention. But I insist that even if one anecdote is just that-a story-two anecdotes are data. And so I persist with stories..." (125)
She invites us to "look beyond the corporate charts and chants and see real children." (160) She intersperses relevant stories about real children from her own teaching experiences, as well as stories told to her by parents and teachers. Dennis eats his pencils to avoid writing. Charles learns that it's OK to be different when he reads "The Ugly Duckling." Leslie's friend Jessica teaches her to understand knock-knock riddles, a must-have skill for children. Michael learns the power of personal letters. And, kids cry over and vomit on tests. There are others.
Stories about children are the heart of this book: Ms. Ohanian's unique gift to us. Personally, I would like to have read more success stories about real children in today's public schools where they are often treated like numbered robots being processed for the global economy and fewer horror stories about the "Standardistas."
In the final chapter, Ms. Ohanian documents honorable efforts of parents and educators to change the test-prep curriculum back to kid-driven instruction for life-long learning. Some parents and educators are encouraging others to just say no to this harmful test mania by opting out of the standardized tests. There may be consequences for these battles, but we must win the war to re-establish our schools as places where people are more important than test scores.
Buy it, read it, and give a copy to any parent, teacher, or politician who reads and who cares about the future. Our children are our future. What kind of citizenry are we creating when test scores are more important than character? Character is supposed to count. We must learn from the kids in the Seattle Special Olympics who demonstrated by their actions that "what matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others to win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then." (51)
This book gives no credit to parents.......2003-01-03
My son has started grade one this year and I am shocked at the lack of accountablility in education today. This book gives no credit to parents or educators that want to know what is going on in schools. Everyone knows that standardized test are not perfect and cannot meet all the needs of an education, but neither can any formal educational method.
What are the alternatives??????
This books argues against applying scientific methods to education.
When I went to school, some years I had good teachers and tests and some years I had bad teachers and tests. With standardized testing at least there is an attempt to improve this. If the tests are no good, then they should be changed, not thrown out.
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
Excellent examination of major, unspoken problems.......2002-10-27
Anyone with children will realize that the Golden Age of Education is over. Gone are the halcyon days of elementary school where children were first taught how to be good human beings and live in a civilization, and academics came second. Now, with high-stakes testing and the punitive "No Child Left Behind" initive by the Bush administration (which is more accurately called "No Child Left Untested" by the author), testing has become paramount to just about anything else teachers do or have done in decades past.
Case in point: a school district in Michigan has a 539-page curriculum for PRESCHOOL. Student's ranking in schools and teacher's salaries are directly linked to one or two tests that students take that focus on exclusive and often inappropriate material. Children in elementary schools throughout America are taking tests for days on end, racking up more test-taking hours than potential lawyers taking the Bar Exam. Wild animals used in Hollywood films have more break times in their days than your average schoolchild. Kindergarten curriculum, in the words of many people who run education, should be preparing children for college. In other words, as a nation, we have completely lost our marbles when it comes to testing and too many governmental folk are bowing down at the altar of test-worship.
A local educator recently said, "if I need to know how Little Johnny is doing in school, I go to HIM, not to his Ohio Proficiency Test from 1999." This clear and obvious paradigm for finding out how a child is doing in school has been completely left behind in recent years, and is likely to keep on happening. Ms. Ohanian's book is frighteningly FULL of examples and incidents when educators have gone straight to some standardized test to see how children are performing in school vs. the children themselves. Where the teachers stand in all these goings on is somewhere between a soldier on the front lines being given totally ridiculous and dangerous commands, and a prisoner of war being forced to do whatever the Big Wigs say, or else they're likely to find themselves up against a firing squad (for example, a school in Chicago SUED a teacher for 3 MILLION DOLLARS for looking at a standardized test before administering it to the children. A teacher will go to JAIL if they even GLANCE over a child's shoulder during standardized tests in Florida).
Ms. Ohanian asks some very good questions throughout her book, including why aren't teachers and parents DOING something about this national craze for test scores, and how is this REALLY HELPING any child to be tested to the point of getting sick and vomiting? She also asks some quite valid questions, like why are we spending billions of dollars testing children when so many schools are literally falling apart? Instead of shelling out 3 million dollars to a test-writing company, why not spend that money on repairing the SCHOOL? What do we hope to accomplish by testing children into the ground? What message are we sending our teachers and our children when their teacher is not only NOT allowed to even LOOK at the test, but risks jail time if they do? (can't you just see THAT one: HARDENED CRIMINAL: "whatcha in for, buddy? Murder 1?" TEACHER: "no, I looked over the shoulder of a first grader during a standardized test...").
The message is pretty clear: children don't matter at all unless they fall within a certain range on one or two standardized tests that are usually given once, graded by someone who is NOT an educator, and the results are posted months later (in Cleveland, our proficiency tests were taken back in March, but we're just getting the results of those tests NOW, 7 months later). It's also clear that teachers and parents are clearly not experts on their own children, because the LAST person to be consulted about how Johnny does in school are these very people: those who write the laws and the curriculum and who punish the schools and teachers are only looking at pages of statistics.
Gaaah... Maddening...
Ms. Ohanian's book is meticulously well researched and she cites startling and often frightening statistics and stories about what is considered "normal" educational proceedings in America today. I myself am rereading it for the second time, taking notes as I go and passing it along to my teaching colleagues. Actually, it's getting to the point where EVERY SINGLE PAGE documents something either useful, scary or enraging that I'm finding it easier to simply hand the book to friends and colleagues and say, "here, read this."
My hope is that this book and others like it will actually DO SOMETHING-spark off a national debate and get parents and teachers and students to go out there and stop putting up with this nonsense. There's no reason children in North Carolina have to be tested on the spelling and meaning of "circumference" in first grade. Nothing good will come of testing our children so often that they loose the ability to THINK and can only regurgitate information and bubble in little circles with a no. 2 pencil. PARENTS know that. TEACHERS know that. FAMILIES know that. ANYONE who works with a child knows that. NOW we need to make sure that our lawmakers (who obviously all live in a totally different world from us Common Folk) begin to know that as well. Get the book, read it through, then pass it along to someone else. If the people lead, eventually the leaders will follow.
What Happened to Recess and...other educational activities?.......2002-08-17
Fastmoving, quick-paced, and well-researched, this Susan Ohanian books swims in waters no man has tried before--or woman. What is said is worth reading--twice, mulling over, and wondering about, and then, taking action.
That big business is taking the joy out of education is becoming more and more real every day. What that joy really is, Susan makes very clear to all: discovery, wondering, questioning, and trying...not scores, and informational feedback, and high-stakes testing.
The words beat much like a throbbing heart that has loved education and children maybe too much and therefore breaks too quickly and easily under this new sort of approach to children.
No Child Left Untested is more like the way things are becoming.
Susan backs up her opinions with strong research and data proving her point.
I found the book to be revealing, to the point of being unable to put it down for long. It leads into the future and the future right now doesn't look good for children.
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- Pre-Raphaelite Splendor
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Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer
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Pre-Raphaelite Splendor.......2000-07-18
As I only had about 30 minutes to view this exhibit at the Met (I know - it's absurd), I am delighted to have this beautiful catalog to examine in close detail. The reproductions are indeed stunning, and the text, although very detailed, is quite readable. A treasure for art lovers, especially fans of the Pre-Raphaelite style.
Here's a sumptuous feast of color and fantasy.......1998-11-26
This is a real eye opener of a book if you are looking for an in depth retrospective of the artist's body of work! Burne-Jones is at last receiving his fair due of recognition as witnessed by the recent Met show in the Summer of 1998. This book showcases his many merits, including a unerring color and design technique applied to fantastical subjects. What makes the book so irresistible is the wealth of color plates accompanied by detailed explanations. It also helps that the authors were thoughtful enough to leave out any stuffy, academic narrative that overburdens this genre.
What a great Book!!.......1998-09-23
This edition of the catalogue for the Metropolitain Museum of Art's recent(and sadly closed) exhibit belongs on every art library's list of " must buys." What a wealth of information and imagery, all presented in generous counterbalance in splendid color throughout. Buy this!!
A magnificent book for a magnificent exhibition.......1998-08-04
To visit the Burne-Jones exhibition at New York's Metropolitain Museum of Art is a thrill beyond describing. It is like being surrounded by old friends of the sort usually found in dreams.The stunning, fully illustrated catalogue that accompanies the show is perhaps the best catalogue I have seen, most notably for its impeccable and stimulating essays, and for its phenominal wealth of color reproductions. This book is a stunner, despite two or three flipped pictures( which I guess could happen to anyone in the rush to get such an involved publication ready in time!) I would advise all bookshops, libraries and Burne-Jones lovers to order this book now for its September release. It is sure to be the most valuable book on its subject for many years to come.
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Art and Forbidden Fruit: Hidden Passion in the Life of William Morris
John Y Le Bourgeois
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William Morris is one of the most admired figures of the Victorian era. Studies of his Art and his life fill the shelves of libraries. Yet, for all this accessibility, an air of uncertainty has always clouded his image. Since Morris's death, biographers and scholars have portrayed the artist as a victim, bound to an adulterous wife. In Art and Forbidden Fruit, John Le Bourgeois lifts the veil of appearances, and shows the truth about Morris's life. In a close analysis of Morris's poetry and biography, the Author asserts the early existence of an emotional attachment between William Morris and his sister Emma, and how she became the principal source of his inspiration. Le Bourgeois follows the paths of Morris the artist and Morris the man, and points out the links between the poet's love for his sister and his evolution as an artist.
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ASIN: 0810931265 |
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Medieval Eyes.......2001-06-29
In death, SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES became the first artist to have funeral services at Westminster Abbey. In life, he put his Oxford University studies in medieval legend and literature to work in Graham piano decorations, King Arthur theatre sets for the Lyceum, and Theatre of London book illustrations. His first decorative work was a Chaucerean design, and his collaboration with William Morris on the Kelmscott Press Illustrated Chaucer was impressive. "Astrologia" shared his favorite sphere motif with "Days of Creation," "Hope," and such portraits as the "Baronne Deslandes." "Golden Stairs" included his recipe for painting success: musical instruments. "Laus Veneris" had the finest of his tapestry-like surface patterns. "Pan and Psyche" was set in one of his typical landscapes: mysteriously dreamlike, with legendary incidents. "Star of Bethlehem" was a watercolor of his "Adoration of the Magi" tapestry: his original stained glass and tapestry designs tended to show up later in paintings. "Temperantia" pioneered his hallmark elaborately folded and wrinkled draperies. But his art also found lighter moments in caricatures and comic sketches, such as his illustrated "Letters to Kate," daughter of lawyer friend George Lewis. Russell Ash's beautifully illustrated, well-written book makes good 19th-century reading with Timothy Hilton's THE PRE-RAPHAELITES, Lionel Lambourne's VICTORIAN PAINTING, Julian Treuherz's VICTORIAN PAINTING, and Malcolm Warner's THE VICTORIANS.
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Brilliantly colored cards celebrate the endless enchantment of mermaids, with vibrant reproductions of works by celebrated artists. Includes: The Depths of the Sea, Burne-Jones; Ulysses and the Sirens, Draper; A Mermaid, Waterhouse; The Mermaid, Pyle; The Land Baby, Collier; The Fisherman and the Siren, Leighton.
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My Niece LOVED THEM.......2006-11-10
They were really great my niece has loved mermaids all her life she swims like a fish she is now preparing to attend the Coast Guard Officer Training School and these mermaids she can take with her I got these for her birthday.
Beautiul Mermaids.......2005-08-16
I love mermaids and this little book contains small 3x5 inch cards with J.W. Waterhouse paintings of memaids. All are lovely images. They can be used as note cards or put into tiny frames or on the fridge to remind one of these lovely creatures.
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Always intrigued by Edward Burne-Jones’s portrait of her great-aunt, Amy Gaskell, Josceline Dimbleby’s chance meeting with the painting’s current owner encouraged her to explore the mystery of her own family’s past and the life and death of her beautiful great-aunt.
In her search, Dimbleby uncovered a passionate correspondence between Burne-Jones and her great-grandmother, May Gaskell, Amy’s mother, which continued throughout the last six years of the Pre-Raphaelite painter’s life.
As she delved deeper into their engrossing lives, questions emerged. What was the deep secret May had confided to Edward? And what was the tragic truth behind Amy’s wayward, wandering life, her strange marriage, and her unexplained early death?
Weaving together the threads of this tale, Dimbleby takes us through a turbulent period in English history and visits the most far-flung corners of the Empire. William Morris, Rudyard Kipling, William Gladstone, and prominent members of the Souls also play a part in this sweeping, often funny, and sometimes tragic story. Richly detailed and exquisitely told, May and Amy is a stunning account of hidden love and family secrets.
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100 pages of beautiful tailpieces, decorative letters, elaborate floral borders and frames, samples of body type, and other illustrations contain all 87 Burne-Jones woodcuts and every Morris border and decoration. Introduction by Fridolf Johnson. A magnificent capsulation of fine printing beauty for browsing or for use by commercial artists.
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Phenomenal.......2005-05-25
This is a really phenomenal work, with page after page of great Burne-Jones illustrations, all in his signature style. If you like his paintings you'll love these illustrations. IMO they stand as some of his best compositions - nearly every one of them could have been turned into a painting on par with his best work.
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Alfred Gilbert's Aestheticism: Gilbert Amongst Whistler, Wilde, Leighton, Pater And Burne-Jones (British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings) ... and Visual Culture Since 1750, New Readings)
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Alfred Gilbert
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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A handsome collection of almost 50 of Burne-Jones’ finest drawings executed over a thirty-year period (1865 to 1895) and includes:studies for paintings, murals, room decorations, designs for tapestries and even designs for piano lids. 46 drawings.
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Meh.......2007-01-15
The book was cheaply priced which was a bonus but the prints of the drawings were not very good, they were dark. On the cover they took it upon themselves to lighten up the image but when you look at the image inside the book it is much darker.
Not that the book is an overall bust. The drawings of the faces at the end of the book are exquisite, fluid and really show the best of what Burne-Jones has to offer and the large format lets you enjoy the line work and delicate shading.
Not bad but not awesome.
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Tate British Artists: Edward Burne-Jones (British Artists)
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The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
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Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was a leading artist in what is often referred to as the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Inspired by medieval, classical, and biblical themes, his paintings of graceful women, angels, gods, and heroes are dreamlike and sentimental. He also designed mosaics, tapestries, and stained-glass windows for churches throughout England. This fascinating scholarly study sheds new light on the inspiration and working practices of this most romantic of artists. AUTHOR BIO: David Peters Corbett is reader in the history of art at the University of York and author of Walter Sickert in Tate's British Artists Series.
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