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The Face of Jesus

Product Description: The most iconic face in art over the past 2,000 years has been that of Jesus. As the central figure in Christianity, he has been a source of comfort and support to followers around the world. In The Face of Jesus, art historian Edward Lucie-Smith traces Jesus’s life through famous works of art, both ancient and modern, by such artists as Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, El Greco, Rembrandt, Georges Rouault, and Jean-Michel Basquiat...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9781419700804 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The most iconic face in art over the past 2,000 years has been that of Jesus.

Milos Sobajnc

Product Description: Richly illustrated with over 250 colour images, this is the first in-depth study to be published in the English language of leading Serbain artist Milos Sobajic. Sobajic’s work is a torrential outpouring of images in a wide variety of forms--paintings, sculptures, installations, and works that combine both painting and sculpture...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780856676628 | Philip Wilson Pub Ltd, September 18, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Richly illustrated with over 250 colour images, this is the first in-depth study to be published in the English language of leading Serbain artist Milos Sobajic.

The Glory of Angels

Product Description: A stunning oversized collection of our most sacred guardians, The Glory of Angels, begins by organizing angels by their closeness to God. Illustrations, short stories, and quotes highlight the importance of guardian angels and archangels including Michael, Gabriel and Raphael...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780061787775 | Harper Design Intl, October 27, 2009, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A stunning oversized collection of our most sacred guardians, The Glory of Angels, begins by organizing angels by their closeness to God.

Lives of the Great Modern Artists

Product Description: Creative personalities are always fascinating, and to learn something new about the 20th and 21st centuries' greatest artists—whether eccentric or sober, outspoken or reclusive—is compelling.105 artists are presented in lively short biographies, and each entry is illustrated with important works, self-portraits, and photographs...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780500281918 | 2 edition (Thames & Hudson, June 29, 2009), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Creative personalities are always fascinating, and to learn something new about the 20th and 21st centuries' greatest artists—whether eccentric or sober, outspoken or reclusive—is compelling.

Kent Williams: Amalgam: Paintings and Drawings, 1992-2007

Product Description: In his catalogue essay on Los Angeles-based figurative painter and graphic novelist Kent Williams, Edward Lucie-Smith states, "The main thing about Williams' production, whatever form it takes, is that one feels a passionate desire to paint at work, and, in addition to that, a passionate desire to enlarge not only his own imaginative experience, but the imaginative experience of anyone who takes the trouble to give his paintings more than a glance...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith, Julia Morton and Kent Williams (other contributor)

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9781934298015 | Allen Spiegel Fine Arts, July 1, 2008, cover price $75.60 | About this edition: In his catalogue essay on Los Angeles-based figurative painter and graphic novelist Kent Williams, Edward Lucie-Smith states, "The main thing about Williams' production, whatever form it takes, is that one feels a passionate desire to paint at work, and, in addition to that, a passionate desire to enlarge not only his own imaginative experience, but the imaginative experience of anyone who takes the trouble to give his paintings more than a glance.

Wifredo Lam in North America

Product Description: In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992). Lam's paintings craft Surrealist conjunctions from Cuban religious iconography--especially from tribal masks--and retrieve a suppressed Afro-Cuban culture that ultimately sets them apart from any movement...read more

By Dawn Ades, Curtis L. Carter, Valerie J. Fletcher, Lou Laurin-Lam, Edward Lucie-Smith and Lowery Stokes Sims

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9780945366225 | Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty, March 1, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the winter of 2007, Milwaukee's Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, organized and hosted the first American retrospective exhibition of Cuba's favorite Surrealist, Wifredo Lam (1902-1992).

Censoring the Body

Product Description: From the earliest times, human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward way. At the dawn of art, representations of the nude body focused almost entirely on fertility, with some cultures explicit and others rather more prudish about representing the unclothed body...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9781905422531 | Seagull Books London Ltd, November 13, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: From the earliest times, human beings have found it difficult to represent their own bodies in a straightforward way.

Santiago Cardenas

Product Description: Santiago Cárdenas has produced one of the most rigorous and impressive bodies of work in Colombian painting. This book brings to life his obsessive drive to shred color, unravel light, and reinvent objects and the human figure using a simple evocation—a fleeting reflection—as a starting point to produce an inevitable attraction for viewers...read more

By Julio Cesar Florez (photographer), Edward Lucie-Smith and Benjamin Villegas (editor)

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9789588156842 | Villegas Editores, June 1, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Santiago Cárdenas has produced one of the most rigorous and impressive bodies of work in Colombian painting.

Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work

Product Description: "Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work" is an in-depth retrospective of St Lucia's pre-eminent visual artist. Born in St Lucia, Xavier has spent more than half his life travelling the globe gaining rich and rewarding visual experience: from early representational oils, through work addressing racial and political themes in the 1960s to more 'abstract' series of watercolours, oils and collages drawing on Arawak and ancient myths, and celebrating the natural world...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith (introduced by) and Lowery Stokes Sims (foreword by)

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9781405086493 | Macmillan Caribbean, January 1, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: "Llewellyn Xavier: His Life and Work" is an in-depth retrospective of St Lucia's pre-eminent visual artist.

My Jamaica: The Paintings of Judy Ann MacMillan

Product Description: Judy Ann MacMillan is one of Jamaica's leading artists. This unique collection of paintings represents a life-time's work by an artist whose detailed observations and astute eye has captured her beloved Jamaica and preserved it for everyone to see.

By Edward Lucie-Smith (introduced by) and Judy Ann MacMillan (illustrator)

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9780333997178 | Macmillan Pub Ltd, November 30, 2004, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Judy Ann MacMillan is one of Jamaica's leading artists.

Latin American Art of the 20th Century

A comprehensive survey discuses the genre's major subjects and issues, citing the works of such contributors as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Miguel Calder�n while discussing how their achievements reflect current movements as well as the politics, society, and art of their periods. Original.

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780500203569 | 2 edition (Thames & Hudson, October 30, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A survey of Latin American art discusses major subjects and themes and the interrelationship of politics, society, and art; looks at Latin American folk art; and examines the work of notable artists.

9780500202609 | Thames & Hudson, May 1, 1993, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A survey of Latin American art discusses major subjects and themes and the interrelationship of politics, society, and art, looks at Latin American folk art, and examines the work of notable artists

Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews With Environmental Artists

By John K. Grande and Edward Lucie-Smith (foreword by)

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9780791461938 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 12, 2004, cover price $75.50

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9780791461945 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 12, 2004, cover price $29.95

The Color of Time: The Phoographs of Sean Scully

Product Description: Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio. His photographs sometimes consist of close-up shots of his own paintings, wherein he zooms in on the material reality of his richly painted surfaces and transforms their colors and shapes into a different abstract configuration...read more

By Arthur C. Danto, Mia Fineman, Edward Lucie-Smith (introduced by) and Sean Scully

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9783882439618 | Steidl / Edition7L, March 1, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Painter, photographer, watercolorist, and printmaker Sean Scully roams the world with his camera, capturing its surfaces in places as far-flung as Mexico and the Aran Islands, as close to home as his own studio.

The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms

Thoroughly revised to incorporate entries on the latest artist groups, styles, and technology, this comprehensive art reference includes more than two thousand entries, complemented by hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, on painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, decorative arts, applied arts, graphic arts, and digital imagery. Original.

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780500203651, titled "Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms" | 2 sub edition (Thames & Hudson, January 1, 2004), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Thoroughly revised to incorporate entries on the latest artist groups, styles, and technology, this comprehensive art reference includes more than two thousand entries, complemented by hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, on painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, decorative arts, applied arts, graphic arts, and digital imagery.

9780500202227 | Reprint edition (Thames & Hudson, February 1, 1988), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: What exactly is Neo-Expressionism?

Erotica: The Fine Art of Sex

Product Description: Edward Lucie-Smith is probably the best-known author in his field internationally respected for the breadth of his sympathies, for the clarity and directness of his writing on art, and for his ability to make complex contemporary developments accessible to a wide audience...read more

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9781592580330 | Hylas Pub, September 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Edward Lucie-Smith is probably the best-known author in his field internationally respected for the breadth of his sympathies, for the clarity and directness of his writing on art, and for his ability to make complex contemporary developments accessible to a wide audience.

David Remfrey: Dancers

Product Description: This book serves as a biographical and critical study of David Remfry's work.

By Dore Ashton, Edward Lucie-Smith and Carter Ratcliff

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9780936859415 | Boca Raton Museum of Art, July 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book serves as a biographical and critical study of David Remfry's work.

Julio Larraz

Product Description: A master of realism, Julio Larraz stands out strongly on the American contemporary art scene. Throughout his artistic career he has indefatigably pursued a line of expressive and thematic research out of which an unmistakable style has gradually emerged...read more

By Julio Larraz and Edward Lucie-Smith

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9788884913470 | Skira, May 1, 2003, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: A master of realism, Julio Larraz stands out strongly on the American contemporary art scene.

Judy Chicago

Product Description: Judy Chicago is one of the most influential artists of our time-and now there's an important new reference that pays tribute to the four-decade career of this fabulous artist. Published in conjunction with an exhibition to be held at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Fall and Winter 2002, Judy Chicago is filled with resplendent, full-color reproductions spanning the entire range of her work: the early years in California; the feminist work; the Dinner Party years; the Birth Project years; the Powerplay series; the Holocaust Project; and finally, her autobiographical and recent work...read more

By Lucy R. Lippard and Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780823025909 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, May 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Judy Chicago is one of the most influential artists of our time-and now there's an important new reference that pays tribute to the four-decade career of this fabulous artist.

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9780823025879 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, July 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A tribute to the influential contemporary artist and official catalog for the National Museum of Women in the Arts 2002 exhibition considers the key periods that spanned her forty-year career.

Art Tomorrow

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9782845760486 | Vilo Intl, October 1, 2002, cover price $50.00

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9782879392523 | Vilo Intl, October 1, 2002, cover price $40.00

American Realism

Product Description: Despite the acclaim given since 1945 to American abstract painting and sculpture, realism has continued to play a uniquely important role in American art. This lavishly illustrated book explores the tremendous scope, richness, toughness, sensibility, and liveliness of the American realist tradition...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780810919419 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Reproductions of paintings and photographs illustrate an historical survey of American realistic art from the early colonial primitives to the modern work of Andy Warhol

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9780500283561 | Thames & Hudson, April 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Despite the acclaim given since 1945 to American abstract painting and sculpture, realism has continued to play a uniquely important role in American art.

Changing Shape: New and Selected Poems

Product Description: A careful sorting out of his complete works, this book also contains Edward Lucie-Smith's most penetrating poems of recent years. Marked by its human and social commentary, Lucie-Smith's verse plays within the spheres of erotic and aesthetic imagery and often exudes a historical and religious sensibility...read more

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9781857545494 | Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A careful sorting out of his complete works, this book also contains Edward Lucie-Smith's most penetrating poems of recent years.

Flora: Gardens and Plants in Art and Literature

Product Description: Gardens are reflections of paradise, sanctuaries from the daily grind. Every culture reflects the beauty of the garden, and Flora displays wonderful images of flowers and gardens from a wide variety of societies and historical periods...read more

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780823018406 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gardens are reflections of paradise, sanctuaries from the daily grind.

Movements in Art Since 1945

Product Description: This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.The fifth edition reflects the latest developments in a wide-ranging introduction and nine new chapters that deal with the radical transformations that have taken place in contemporary art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780844661292 | Revised edition (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1985), cover price $16.75 | About this edition: This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.

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9780500203446 | New edition (Thames & Hudson, May 1, 2001), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: This classic account of the history of the visual arts from the end of World War II to the new millennium has now been completely rewritten, revised, expanded, and updated.

Flesh & Stone

Product Description: Gay erotic photos contrasted with photos of classical sculpture.

By Edward Lucie-Smith

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9781893263109 | Ipso Facto, November 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Gay erotic photos contrasted with photos of classical sculpture.

Judy Chicago: An American Vision

Product Description: A prodigious body of work that has transformed perceptions of women’s art and collaborative venture is fully scrutinized in the first book to cover the entire scope of an astonishing and influential career.One of the most controversial artists of our time, Judy Chicago is most famous for her groundbreaking installations The Dinner Party, Birth Project, and Holocaust Project...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith

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9780823025855 | Watson-Guptill Pubns, May 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A prodigious body of work that has transformed perceptions of women’s art and collaborative venture is fully scrutinized in the first book to cover the entire scope of an astonishing and influential career.

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