Nationally acclaimed for her bold, imaginative, allegorical paintings of animals, Melissa Miller is an iconoclastic artist who has fearlessly worked outside of prevailing artistic styles and movements since the mid-1970s. Her paintings have been included in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Bienniale and collected by major museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C. Miller draws on a wider variety of literary and art historical sources than most contemporary artists, as well as a deeply felt connection to the natural world, to compose narratives that use animal actors to powerfully express humanity's inchoate fears and longings. Melissa Miller is the first major publication of this important artist's work. The book presents over one hundred color images of Miller's paintings, from early work done in the late 1970s up to paintings created in the mid-2000s. These color plates allow viewers to follow the intriguing development of Miller's art from action-packed narratives, to more symbol-laden allegories incorporating supernatural and spectral creatures, to pastoral tableaux imbued with a serenity and sense of order that is new to Miller's aesthetic. Accompanying Miller's paintings are essays by noted critics Susie Kalil and Michael Duncan. Kalil offers an authoritative, art historical overview of Miller's work, including her connections with European and Asian art, as well as perceptive commentary on numerous paintings and extensive quotes from the artist herself. Duncan's essay focuses on Miller's use of animals as agents of metamorphosis and transformation. Lists of Miller's solo and group exhibitions, a list of public collections that own her work, and a bibliography round out the book. A landmark, mid-career assessment of a major American artist, Melissa Miller is the definitive volume on this nonconformist painter.

Melissa Miller (M. Georgia Hegarty Dunkerley Contemporary Art Series)

Arts & Photography

Miller, Melissa

Duncan, MIchael

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

Kushner (b.1949) has three decades of artistic activity under his belt and a long list of estimable institutions that hold his work. This presentation tantalizes with full-page reproductions of about 75 works produced between 2002 and 2005; but full pages in a book measuring 10.5x8 no doubt convey only a fraction of the experience of viewing these

Robert Kushner: Wild Gardens

Individual Artists

Pomegranate

Written by Michael Duncan and Christopher Wagstaff, with additional essays by William Breazeale and James Maynard. 288 pages Size: 8½ x 10 in. Over 200 full-color reproductions with over 60 color and black-and-white photographs. The book is smyth-sewn casebound, with jacket. Includes Exhibition Checklist, Index, and Appendixes. The book includes essays on the artists and poets in Jess and Duncan's circle: Helen Adam, Virginia Admiral, Paul Alexander, Wallace Berman, Ronald Bladen, Jack Boyce, Lyn Brown Brockway, James Broughton, Edward Corbett, Ernesto Edwards, Norris Embry, Lilly Fenichel, Tom Field, Llyn Foulkes, Nemi Frost, Madeline Gleason, George Herms, Fran Herndon, Miriam Hoffman, Harry Jacobus, Lawrence Jordan, Patricia Jordan, Pauline Kael, R. B. Kitaj, William McNeill, Eloise Turner Mixon, Philip Roeber, and Robert Dean Stockwell.

An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle

Wagstaff, Christopher

Total Heart Health for Women: A Life-Enriching Plan for Physical and Spiritual Well-Being

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Total Heart Health for Women: A Life-enriching Plan for Physical & Spiritual Well-being

Young, Ed

Young, Jo Beth

Leachman, Richard

Religion & Spirituality

W Pub Group

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Total Heart Health for Men: A Life-enriching Plan for Physical & Spiritual Well-being

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Heart disease is the number one killer of men in America - but the cause may be more complex than cutting out saturated fat and salt. There is an increasing body of scientific research supporting the link between physical and spiritual health. It's difficult to have a truly healthy physical life without a healthy spiritual life and vice versa. In Total Heart Health for Men, well-known author and pastor, Ed Young, teams up with two of the country's leading physicians from the world-renown Texas Heart Institute, Dr. J. Michael Duncan and Dr. Richard Leachman, to offer men the guidance they so desperately need to achieve total heart health in their lives. As part of the "30 Minutes a Day Total Heart Health Challenge," men will be inspired and supported in making practical changes toward a healthy heart, by honoring Christ both physically and spiritually, with their total hearts.

Total Heart Health for Men

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Costly Mission: Following Christ into the Slums (Urban Ministry)

History

Missions Advanced Research &

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art.

Joe Goode

Ruscha, Edward

Guenther, Bruce

Goode, Joe

Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.)

Newport Harbor Art Museum

Laguna Art Museum is proud to organize the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of a key figure in twentieth-century California art, Helen Lundeberg (1908-1999). Featuring approximately sixty to seventy paintings, it will survey Lundebergâ€™s career systematically, beginning with her landmark Post-Surrealist paintings of the 1930s. With her teacher and later husband Lorser Feitelson, she organized the Post-Surrealist group, the first of its kind in the United States, and wrote its manifesto. Though exploring psychology and personal expression, the Post-Surrealists aimed to bring a greater sense of order and control to European Surrealism and originally styled themselves New Classicists. By the late 1950s Lundeberg was working on a larger scale. She simplified her style into broad, flat areas of color and, though never a pure abstractionist, played a key part in the â€œhard-edgeâ€ tendency in mid-century painting. Bringing de Chirico-like ambiguities of space to architectural and landscape compositions, she preserved the enigmatic mood of her earlier, surrealistic imagery.

HELEN LUNDEBERG: A RETROSPECTIVE

Warner, Malcolm

Grand Central Press

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