This entertaining poetic display captures inner experiences and converts them into meaningful words, with musicality and grace. Patricia Jamison, a Midwesterner who currently lives in Texas, has been writing poetry for fifteen years. She... Read More

Savor these rich images, valuable for street photographers and those wishing to keep alive the memory of 1980s New York. Robert Herman’s "The New Yorkers" is as much an historical document as it is art. It records a time in American... Read More

This inspirational book encourages artists to view art as worthy of the effort required to master it. Early chapters of Making Art a Practice: 30 Ways to Paint a Pipe, by Cat Bennett, include essays about the artistic process and how to... Read More

Reaney’s emblems are examined as a multi-leveled artform, as Thomas Gerry presents a guided journey through the artist’s imagination. In this illustrated book, The Emblems of James Reaney: Magnetically Drawn, Thomas Gerry, professor... Read More

Dempster’s linocut illustrations based on Mexican folk music are imaginative and fun, with writing that only adds to the enjoyment. During his time in Veracruz, Mexico, musician and artist Alec Dempster began to create illustrations of... Read More

Like the Greek Antigone, the speaker in Slaight’s poems seems to be crying out to be heard. Living in Canada in the 1970s, writer Marie Slaight and artist Terrence Tasker took on timeless themes—birth, death, sexuality—through... Read More

Sumptuous illustrations are a look back in time, yet also an inspiration for the future. The temptress Bathsheba is the cover girl for Getty Publications’ "Gardens of the Renaissance", standing calmly naked with gleaming gold tresses... Read More

Prague’s surrealist legacy, forgotten amid twentieth century totalitarianism, is revived and detailed in an impressive narrative. "Prague: Capital of the Twentieth Century" opens as the French surrealists Andre Breton and Paul Éluard... Read More