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This book is to coincide with the National Gallery's exhibition of the same name. With chapters from leading Irish historians, including Roy Foster, Tom Dunne and Róisín Kennedy, 'Creating History' delivers fascinating assessments that situate the Easter Rising and Ireland's claim to independence through the historical significance and aesthetic value of Ireland's major artistic works.

The life and work of a master painter of the Old West.

It is a land of contrast, of far-spreading plains and high-reaching canyon walls, and of air stretched thin - a land made for painting, not, perhaps, for living. Intrigued by the danger, the drama and the savage light of this land of geological upheaval and downcutting, artists have long been drawn to the far west of Texas. The forty-nine paintings selected for this volume display the variety, the majesty, the glory of this vast region.

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From the back cover of the book, quoted in part:"The America Karal Ann Marling (the author) refers to is small-town America during the depression era; in particular those communities that were portrayed in the 1000-odd murals that appeared in post offices around the country under the auspices of the Treasury Department Section of Fine Arts. She goes far beyond an investigation of the murals as art, and 'Wall to Wall America' becomes an intelligent,...

In 1653, the artist Johannes Vermeer, the twenty-one year old son of an innkeeper, registered as a master painter with the Delft guild. He went on to enjoy a respectable local reputation as a painter until his death in 1675; it was not until the mid-nineteenth century, however, that his genius was widely appreciated. Today, Vermeer's thirty-five paintings are regarded as masterpieces. In this book, the author presents an intriguing portrait of Vermeer's...

A history of Texas artists who painted Texas out of a love for Texas.