Product Description: Early childhood practitioners are often reluctant to see themselves as leaders and managers. However, all those who work with young children and their families, whatever their level of experience and competence, have to undertake both of these roles on a daily basis...read more

Product Description: One of the most influential and provocative art critics of the twentieth century, Clement Greenberg propelled Abstract Expressionist painting—in particular the monumental work of Jackson Pollock—to a leading position in an international postwar art world...read more

Product Description: The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface...read more

Product Description: New painting and drawing is the subject of Remote Viewing, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all of whom create new worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation...read more

Product Description: This accessible text provides guidance on the inclusion of young children with special educational needs or disabilities in a variety of early education settings. The author highlights the complexity of early identification and assessment of children described as having special educational needs...read more

Product Description: Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to sociology, history and philosophy of science to gender studies, cultural history to the philosophy of mind...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Taking a fresh look at the art world of the 1960s, Caroline Jones argues that far from the countercultural stance associated with the decade, the artists she examines—including Stella, Warhol, and Smithson—identified their work with postwar industry and corporate culture...read more

Product Description: Major works of Picasso, Gris, Beckmann, Brancusi, Matisse, Pollock, Kiefer on early collecting of modern art; enlivening text on art galleries, dealers, artists, critics.

Describes the development of a movement creating figurative, rather than abstract, art in the San Francisco Bay Area, and provides examples of its paintings, drawings and sculpture

Product Description: Major works of Picasso, Gris, Beckmann, Brancusi, Matisse, Pollock, Kiefer on early collecting of modern art; enlivening text on art galleries, dealers, artists, critics.