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Had a good laugh reading the book.......2005-09-15
Last year, I received the book as a gift from my husband. I put it aside for almost a year. He actually finished reading it before I even gave it a chance. Last month, I started reading it and I don't regret the experience.
This book made me laugh when I needed a good laugh. It's a recommended reading for everyone who appreciates good humor.
Better masterpieces here than in that museum in Paris.......2003-05-03
With a cow Mona Lisa painting on the front cover how can you go wrong? The cartoons in here are from Hound of the Far Side, The Far Side Observer and Night of the Crash Test Dummies. It may be cheaper to buy these books individually instead of this gallery so compare prices before purchasing.
The advantage of owning the galleries is that some cartoons are full page size which is three times the size of the original books. Not all cartoons are full size though just some.
The classic cartoon set in an exam with the bonus question (50 points) "What's the name of that thing that hangs down the back of our throats?" The caption underneath states "Final Page of the Medical Boards," is in this edition.
Another has Noah saying "Now Listen Up. We're Going to do This Alphabetically," the Zebras are thinking "Damn!"
The Classic "Drive George! Drive! This One's Got a Coathanger!" with a lion trying to unlock the car door to eat the woman.
Should you buy it? Of course you should.
Humor and Biology--A Good Mix.......1999-12-07
Gary Larson has teamed up with Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and taxonomist --Harvard University, to create a biologically funny book. Humor has a purpose in this book. It is used in an attempt to cause the reader to think biologically on a macrocosmic level. Social interaction of all animals on the smallest level effects the bigger picture. I enjoyed this book very much; however, a few cartoons were biologically "over my head." With some critical thinking, all readers may be able to get the message of all the cartoons.
He has a amazing mind to be able to think up such comedy!.......1999-09-22
I loved it!! It was soooooo funny! I hope he keeps writing these books
I laughed till I cried !.......1999-05-08
Gary Larson's homour is unique and incredibly funny - and this is true for all his books that I've read so far! I already start laughing when looking at the cartoon characters - they are wonderfully drawn! If cows or chickens are your favourite animals and you like grotesque situations, or you simply want to laugh, then Gary Larson should be your first choice. He's the best!!!!!
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THE FAR SIDE GALLERY 3
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The Far Side Gallery 3
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The Far Side Gallery 3
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THE FAR SIDE GALLERY: NO. 3
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The Far Side Gallery 3
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Essays by Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke, Mitchell A. Codding, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martín, M. Concepción García Sáiz, Ilona Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos, Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie Trusted.
By the end of the 16th century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diverse art forms in Latin America. This monumental book transcends geographic boundaries and explores the history of the confluence of styles, materials, and techniques among Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas through the end of the colonial era––a period marked by the independence movements, the formation of national states, and the rise of academic art.
Written by distinguished international scholars, essays cover a full range of topics, including city planning, iconography in painting and sculpture, East-West connections, the power of images, and the role of the artist. Beautifully illustrated with over 450 works—many published for the first time—this book presents a spectacular selection of decorative arts, textiles, silver, sculpture, painting, and furniture. Scholarly entries on some three hundred works highlight the various cultural influences and differences throughout this vast region. This groundbreaking book also includes an illustrated chronology, informative maps, and an exhaustive bibliography and is sure to set a new standard in the field of Latin American studies.
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Magnificent art works.......2007-07-09
This is a book that just wows you with incredible history and beautiful silver works, furniture, decorative arts, textiles, maps, sculptures and of course,paintings from all over Latin America. The essays are articulate and expansive details to the time periods covered in the arts to further increase your knowledge of the particular pieces of art. This is a large oversized book that makes a nice coffee table book for guests to browse; it also makes a fine weight for lifting, you know, do a few bicep curls while you are watching just sitting. Seriously though the book is exquisite in format and details and perfect for an addition to your library. Naturally much of the works are of a religious nature which is do to the time period. It is a marvel to see these pieces of work that have withstood hundreds of years. I was especially taken by the non-traditional arts, like the silver work , furniture and textiles. I would recommend this book for your personal library if you are interested in the arts or it is highly recommended for a community or school libray.
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With this lovely and informative volume, Alan Feduccia preserves the pathbreaking work of Mark Catesby, the English naturalist and illustrator who founded natural history and bird art in America. First published by UNC Press in 1985, the book features all 109 bird illustrations, 20 color plates, and the entire text from Catesby's pioneering Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahamas. Annotating Catesby's writings from a modern perspective, Feduccia discusses the perception of each species during the Colonial period, comments on its habits, and compares Catesby's observations with those of such other early naturalists as John White, John Lawson, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon.
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John Smibert: Colonial America`s First Portrait Painter (A Barra Foundation Book)
Richard H. Saunders
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John Smibert (1688-1751) was the first portrait painter of distinction to attempt to carve out an existence in colonial America. This abundantly illustrated book by Richard Saunders is both a catalogue raisonn of Smibert`s work and a discussion of his life and career. .
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Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this lushly illustrated book positions both well-known painters and unknown artisans within the framework of their economic lives, their families, and the geographies through which they moved as they created notable careers and memorable objects. In considering both painting and decorative arts simultaneously,Art in a Season of Revolution departs from standard practice and resituates painters as artisans. Moreover, it gives equal play to the lives of the makers and the lives of the objects, to studying both within the interdependent social and economic webs linking local and distant populations of workers, theorists, suppliers, and patrons throughout the mercantile Atlantic.
Emphasizing maritime settlements such as Salem, Newport, and Boston and viewing them within the larger framework of the Atlantic world, Margaretta Lovell considers the ways eighteenth-century New England experience was conditioned by its source cultures and markets. Colonial material culture participated in a nonsubsistence international economy, deriving ideas, pigments, and conventions from abroad, and reexporting them in the effort to enlarge market opportunities or to establish artistic reputations in distant London. Exploring these and other key aspects of the aesthetic and social dimensions of the cultural landscape, Lovell concentrates on a cluster of central issues: the relevance of aesthetic production to social hierarchies; the nature and conditions of artisan career trajectories; the role of replication, imitation, and originality in the creation and marketing of art products; and the constituent elements of individual identity for the makers, for the patrons who were their subjects, and for the creations that were their objects.
Art in a Season of Revolution illuminates the participation of pictures, objects, and makers in their cultures. It invites historians to look at the material world as a source of evidence in their pursuit of even very abstract concerns such as the nature of virtue, the uses of identity, and the experience of time. Arguing in favor of a more complex approach to research at the nexus of aesthetic and ideological concerns, this provocative new book challenges established frameworks for understanding the production of art in British America during the tumultuous decades bracketing the Revolution.
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Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century.
Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned—particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise.
The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard.
The contributors:
David R. Brigham (Worcester Art Museum)
Joyce E. Chaplin (Vanderbilt University)
Mark Laird (University of Toronto)
Amy R. W. Meyers (Huntington Library & Art Collections)
Therese O'Malley (National Gallery of Art)
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The unique and significant contributions that deaf artists have made to the art world are gathered in this anthology of American deaf artists. This complete collection includes more than 300 works of art by more than 60 artists from colonial times to the present. In addition to the hundreds of illustrations that fill this meticulously crafted book, biographies, detailed descriptions, and a glossary of terms are provided. Prominent artists include David Hockney, William Mercer, John Brewster, and Mary Thornley.
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A Truly Amazing Work of Art.......2006-10-29
I first heard of this book while corresponding on the internet, and when I purchased the volume, I was immediately struck by the twin artistries which assailed my eyes - a selected group of beautiful drawings and paintings, and the mellifluousness of the descriptive prose which brought each work of art to life. The skill of the author, who is totally deaf herself, in making you feel that you are standing at the artist's elbow as each work is being painted, has to be an art form all by itself. As I read her cogent words, and examined each of the photographs, I could not help feeling that just as we marvel at the master works of such great musicians as Beethoven and Smetana, works composed when each was deaf; we must also stand in awe of such beauty produced by artists who lived in a hearing world, a world which often shunned the art of the deaf, and yet their magnificent works betrayed no sense of resentment or jealousy; just people and a world as they saw it, complete with clowns, society ladies, acrobats, deaf people, still lifes, barnyard inhabitants, and a lot of love. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who loves art, and sensitivity, because both are evenly portrayed in this beautiful volume.
The incredible sound of silence.......2004-09-30
A long overdue book. When are we finally going to appreciate the creative impetus of impaired dimensions? I am that I am. Whatever the Mind's Eye reflects onto the genius of Art, that is the corner of Infinite Ecstasy for the beholder!
I have personally known a NY deaf artist, who is well mentioned in this excellent book (Wildbank), and I found him extraordinary in all aspects with his sense of color, re-visualization, approach to subliminal sources of imagery: a feast of senses, where senses are not there in full. How can you not stand in awe?
The illusionism of the images presented in this book works because it reflects the vision of artists envisaging through another plane of appraisal. Artists here so carefully construct the perceived space, create the sense of texture in objects, and naturalistically render light effects that the viewer feels immediately drawn into that world.
Wildbank for instance provides me with acceptance of his work's existence as a matter of course. My overriding sense in looking at his production is that if illusionism exists here, it is to be found in the Mind, not in the reality it reflects.
The artificial constructs of certain paintings presented in this books are dynamically charged in space and are convincing because of the realistic character of the light and textural effects the artists create, that can only be engedered by a different perceptual stance. Colors range from the deep reds, blues, and blacks in the shadows to the very light, almost pastel tones of the summarily indicated patterns on sunlit and receding planes along top and left edges.
In many instances the artists presented accent the textural characteristics of their painted objects through the way light hits their surfaces. You can comprehend the interest of a deaf artist in the interaction of light with such objects, when silence dominates everything else around them. Upon examining these light effects, one realizes not only how carefully the artist observes its various characteristics, but also how he uses them selectively and creatively. By selectively eliminating shadows, at times the artist minimizes the temporal quality of the light entering the painting. The shadows create the semblance of reality while minimizing the transitory nature of the moment.
A must read for the discovery of silent creative auras.
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- A must-have volume for those interested in early US painters
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America's Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale and Gilbert Stuart
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Concise biographies examine painters, wellsprings of their art, interplay of native tradition and European influence, more. 69 halftones. Bibliography.
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A must-have volume for those interested in early US painters.......1997-09-28
I found this book was able to shed some much needed light on America's first master painters. I found Flexner's writing to be beautiful and the result of reading this book has been several trips to view the works of the artists featured within. I heartily recommend this title to all who are interested in this period of American/art history, or to those who would likee to be!
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- Informative on a good subject, but lacking historical accuracy
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Artists of Colonial America (Artists of an Era)
Elisabeth L. Roark
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During the Colonial era, artists began to create an American identity in the art world. The drawings of explorer John White; the maps of John Foster, American's first printmaker; the silverwork of the famous patriot Paul Revere; the creations of America's first professional woman artist, Henrietta Johnston; and the portraits of John Singleton Copley all helped create a distinct culture in the young colonies. This volume presents narrative chapters on the lives of ten pioneers in Colonial American art. Each biographical chapter traces the artistic development of these and other artists, describing their masterworks and placing them within the artistic traditions and cultural codes of the time. A plethora of illustrations, including an 8-page color insert, provides an invaluable look at Colonial American art. Chapter bibliographies, a glossary of terms, a timeline, and a subject index provide additional tools for students of art from the nation's earliest years.
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Informative on a good subject, but lacking historical accuracy.......2006-02-14
Roark's book sets out to cover a long overlooked and misappropriated period in American history, Colonial America. She covers the art work from John White to Benjamin West.
Subject matter covers painting, stonecutting (especially important in gravestones), engraving, printmaking and silversmithing.
While she describes the outlook of White's positive portraits of the Algonquins, her interpretation of early colonial history is very typical of contemporary views. And, much of her text reveals that of the outsider.
To understand Anglo-Protestant history, she does attempt a look at the historical reasons why the English Protestant settlers came to America. This is found on page 20 and following. She addresses a very brief look at Protestant and Puritan origin, but is incorrect on some important points, she misinterprets faith alone and notes that Henry VIII's daughter is Mary, Queen of Scots - actually, she was Mary Tudor. While Roark hits the mark by showing that the important historical period for the Anglo-Protestant period is the Tudor - Stuart eras, she completely ignores the first Protestant English king and important leader in Purtian origin - Edward VI. Also, Puritans were not a sect per se, but started with the early English Reformers in the Church of England and later became the Presbyterian, Independents (Congregationalists) and Baptist Churches (Non-Conformists) and the Whiggish Anglicans in Britian and reformed Protestants in America. She is also quite inaccurate on the Great Awakening on p. 67. On this read subject, go to Jonathan Edwards,"Treatise Concerning the Religious Affections" and George Marsden's, "Jonathan Edwards: a Life."
Roark does provide some informative narratives on important colonial figures, like Richard Mather and William Penn and others, but she is not sympathetic. Though her tone changes to a sympathetic one in chapter 5 on Catholic colonialists in Maryland. She fails to inform the history of that antipathy and conflict.
Much on religion is prefaced, because of its importance in culture in those times. It also relates to the reason, New Englander's would allow paintings of portraits, but not-portraits of God, which is described as merely iconoclastic.
She does do a helpful job by detailing colonial artwork and notating their extant locations (e.g. John Foster's wood engravings) in current collections and the variety of people and and their art through developments in New England, then the British colonies of North America.
Informative narratives include: John Foster, The Freake Painter, Henrietta Johnston, and Paul Revere among others. She finishes with important artists, John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, both great artists, who interestingly moved back to England.
While Roark has done well to research important artists and cultural aspects of early America, her history is unsympathetic and lacks important historical accuracy. History is important that is why the two stars. Perhaps through an accurate updating the rating will increase. It would have been nice to see a chapter on architecture during the colonial period.
Other suggested artists following Copley and West to read about are Gilbert Stuart and Joshua Johnson.
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