Product Description: Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world.

Product Description: Christopher Wilmarth delighted the world with light-filled sculptures of glass and steel that were deeply poetic in their moods and extraordinarily rich in their modernist heritage. But in 1987, at the peak of his career, a long struggle with depression ended tragically for Wilmarth...read more

While We're Here signals the debut of a poetry that is startling and simple by turns, taking in the classical world and the contempprary with the rigor and inventiveness of its forms. This book is a narrative that moves edgily from the natural world to the social, from the social to the historical. Elegant, sometimes brutal, Madoff's poems echo each other, back and forth, weaving a whole that records the miraculous wealth of the natural world and our own miracles and mayhem within it.

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Product Description: The still-life painting tradition has been constant one in our society. The representation of an assemblage of objects from the everyday world has captivated artists and their audiences throughout history. Whether considering Dutch 17th-century paintings or cubist compositions, the interest remains constant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents an anthology of 94 critical arcticles on the American pop art phenomenon, including information on such pop artists as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, and Rosenquist. (view table of contents)