AMETHYST COUNTRY

AMETHYST COUNTRY
Author: Mary Lennon
Publisher: Matador
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781803131887

Devastated by the collapse of her marriage, Helen Bradshaw flees London for Achill Island on the West Coast of Ireland hoping that her new job researching painter, Grace Henry, will offer her an escape. Achill is wild and beautiful, but island life poses many challenges, she feels isolated, lonely.

How to Live Between Office Visits

How to Live Between Office Visits
Author: Bernie S. Siegel
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0062104713

In this compassionate and powerful healing guide, Dr. Bernie Siegel, the author of the triumphant bestsellers Love, Medicine & Miracles and Peace, Love & Healing, provides readers with healthy ways to respond to life's adversities.

Made in California

Made in California
Author: Stephanie Barron
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2000
Genre: Arts, American
ISBN: 0520337654

This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.

Circa 1492

Circa 1492
Author: Jean Michel Massing
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 684
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300051670

Surveys the art of the Age of Exploration in Europe, the Far East, and the Americas

Digital Marae

Digital Marae
Author: Rhana Devenport
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2009
Genre: Maori (New Zealand people) in art
ISBN: 9780908848324

This richly illustrated, modestly sized casebound book is devoted to Digital Marae; a major ongoing photographic and video project by one of New Zealand's foremost artists Lisa Reihana. Edited by Govett-Brewster Director and curator Rhana Devenport, contributors are leading Maori architectural historian Deidre Brown; Melbourne-based curator and writer Victoria Lynn and cultural theorist and sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis; and Te Papa curator Megan Tamati-Quennell. Additionally, an extended interview with Reihana by Devenport reveals the complex layers of influence that inform this ambitious and significant work.

Shooting the Heart

Shooting the Heart
Author: Paul Cody
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"I can think of no one else who writes with Cody's combination of savagery and tenderness, or who displays such a translucent style to such reverberant effect." --Brian Hall, "I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company."