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FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS Brothers and Mothers
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Thames & Hudson About Face
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Nimbus Publishing Ltd Niniskamijinaqik - Ancestral Images
Book SynopsisNiniskamijinaqik - Ancestral Images provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. These people, too, are faceless, as anonymous to the artist as were the people of whom he had so little knowledge. This book includes 94 of the finest pieces of art or photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaq people. The images in this collection date from the earliest petroglyphs to contemporary photographs, and are accompanied by explanatory notes about the individuals represented.
£26.96
Riverside Book Company The Intimate Eye: Portraits by Bernard Gotfryd
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Ruminator Books Lake Street USA
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George F. Thompson Choosing Fatherhood: America’S Second Chance
Book SynopsisFamilies come in all sizes, shapes, and traditions, each a unique variation of a universal human theme. Whether one comes from a heterosexual, single-sex, or one-parent home, stability and love are paramount. Unfortunately, in the United States, the absence of fathers from their children’s lives has become a real problem. In fact, the Brookings Institute has identified absentee fathers as America's most pressing problem—greater than the economy, education, the environment, health care, infrastructure, you name it. Why? Because nearly every social ill finds an umbrella, a home if you will, in the fatherless home. Choosing Fatherhood: America's Second Chance is meant to explore this issue as no previous book has. And it does so through the art of photography, in which Lewis Kostiner makes portraits of dads who are involved in their children's lives. The book is also accompanied by essays written by leading authorities on the subject: Juan Williams of FOX News, David Travis who was Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago for more than thirty-five years, sociologist Shipra Parikh at Loyola University in Chicago, sociologist Derrick M. Bryan at the Morehouse College, and Roland Warren, former director of the National Fatherhood Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing fatherhood in America, who also served on President Obama's task force on fatherless homes. Getting fathers to be more involved in their children’s lives is of paramount importance, if the United States is to regain ground as an international leader. Right now, the statistics look grim: forty years ago only eleven percent of America's children lived in homes without fathers, but today more than a third do. This translates into high poverty rates, high drop-out rates in high school, high rates of incarceration, multiple behavioral problems, and the list goes on. As President Obama has declared, fatherhood does not begin with the ecstasy of conception but with the beauty of childbirth and the responsibilities that come with creating and caring for a human life. Although changes in custody rulings and other policy remedies are possible, behavioral patterns are often outside the reach of policy. Choosing Fatherhood offers a hopeful direction that America does have a second chance at correcting a troubling trend, but time is slipping, and awareness of the problem is an important start. (See the publishers website for further information about events and a slide show from the book: http://gftbooks.com/books_Kostiner.html ) Go here to see an interview with the photographer Lewis Kostiner and Juan Williams who wrote the introduction: http://video.foxnews.com/v/2197946608001/
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Smithsonian Books Politics and Portraits in the United States and
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Brepols N.V. Funerary Representations of Palmyrene Women: From
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Brepols Publishers Odds and Ends: Unusual Elements in Palmyrene
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£101.65
Bohlau Verlag Welfen und Portrat: Visuelle Strategien hofischer
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Harrassowitz The Iconography of the Pharaoh's Face in the
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Harrassowitz The Iconography of the Pharaoh's Face in the
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Harrassowitz Kultpraxis Und Distinktion: Bildnisse Von
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Privatportrat: Die Darstellung Realer Personen in
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Brill Fink Effigies: Antikes Porträt ALS Figuration Des
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Brill U Fink Effigies: Ancient Portraiture as Figuration of
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Hirmer Verlag Modigliani: The Primitivist Revolution
Book SynopsisAmedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) moved to Paris as a 22-year-old art student and is regarded as probably the last true bohémien in Montmartre. The exhibition catalogue to mark the 100th anniversary of his death shows him for the first time as a leading member of the avant-garde who carried the revolution of Primitivism well into the 20th century. Modigliani’s famous nudes, unusual portraits and unique sculptures are contrasted with works by Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brâncusi and André Derain as well as artefacts from so-called “primitive” cultures. In doing so the volume focuses in particular on Modigliani’s lifelong study of the art of Primitivism, which also interested the artist friends who influenced his work. Some 100 works are on view, including numerous main works by Modigliani from the great museums and most important private collections from America to Asia.Trade Review"Modigliani - Picasso: The Primitivist Revolution is the type and quality of a project one would expect to accompany an exhibition that honors an artist of Modigliani’s caliber on the occasion of the centenary of his death." * New York Journal of Books *
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Lorenzo Lotto Malt Andrea Odoni: Kunstschaffen
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Schnell & Steiner Die Ersten Bildnisse Von Heiligen Der Fruhen
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V&R Unipress Portrats Von Tilla Durieux: Bildnerische
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Sandstein Verlag Wunsch & Wirklichkeit: Portrats Aus Der Sammlung
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Sandstein Verlag Margarete: Meine Mutter. Handzeichnungen Aus Den
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£27.00
Archeobooks Le Portrait Dans La Peinture Antique
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£27.00
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Titian's Aretino
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L'Erma Di Bretschneider Juana Romani: La Petite Italienne: Da Modella a
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