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Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents...

"I have not attempted a presentation of Early Netherlandish Painting in its entirety ... but concentrated my efforts on Hubert and Jan van Eyck, the Master of Flémalle and Roger van der Weyden ... Like my previous book on Albrecht Dürer, this study has grown out of a series of public lectures - in this case, the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1947-1948"--Preface, v. 1, p. vii.

"After the deluge is a grandiloquent phrase that has been bandied about in the news and popular discourse since the floodwaters receded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Here the term has been appropriated by Kara Walker, a contemporary artist known for her satires of slave life in the antebellum south. This book is an attempt to vivify the empty spaces disasters (waterborne or otherwise) leave in their wake and examine the historical/mythological...

A fascinating blend of the technical and aesthetic aspects of ceramics, this second edition features historical background information, analysis of image creation strategies, and numerous technical photos. Photo essays show such processes as raku, throwing on a wheel, slab construction, hand forming in a press mold, working with colored clay, creating a mold-formed vessel, and several others.

A collection of twenty-nine stories in which impossible, fantastic events occur.