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The Complete Funky Winkerbean

Tom Batiuk | Filed under: Art, Black Squirrel Books, New Releases
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Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This volume, which presents the strip’s first three years, introduces the strip’s title character, Funky, and his friends Crazy Harry Klinghorn,…

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A Higher Contemplation

Stephen Fliegel | Filed under: Art, Sacred Landmarks
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In A Higher Contemplation, author Stephen N. Fliegel introduces medieval Christian iconography and its forms, meaning, function, context, and symbolism to twenty-first-century audiences. Serving as a guide to the subtleties, complexities, richness, range, and antiquity of medieval Christian artistic traditions and the multiple levels in…

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The Art of Romeo Celleghin

Susan Whitelaw, and Douglas Hoffman | Filed under: Art, Sacred Landmarks

This exploration of the artistry of Romeo Celleghin reveals the pressing need to undertake research and documentation of religious and sacred artwork before records and art pieces are lost or forgotten forever. Whitelaw’s discoveries help illuminate the path for others and have not only recovered…

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A Vision of Nature

Michael Tobias | Filed under: Art
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For thousands of years humans have grappled with the idea of Nature. This enduring question has left its poignant mark on a multiplicity of images, stories, works of art, and philosophical and religious systems. In A Vision of Nature, Michael Tobias seeks to…

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Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths

Heikki Seppa | Filed under: Art
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A master artist and teacher of metalwork presents a bold new approach to creative expression in metal. Believing that the time has come for the artist to free himself from the functional forms that have dominated the metal smith’s craft—the cup, the box, the…

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Indispensable Harp

John M. Schechter | Filed under: Art, World Musics
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A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures—the harp—is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its…

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An American Art Student in Paris

H. Wayne Morgan | Filed under: Art, Biography
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Kenyon Cox (1856-1919) studied painting in Paris from the fall of 1877 to the fall of 1882. These edited letters, written to his parents in Ohio, describe Cox’s daily routine and explicate French art teaching both in the academic setting of the Ecole des…

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