How Artists See Play

How Artists See PlayIn How Artists See Play children can see how Jacob Lawrence chose bright colors and strong curving lines to convey the speed and energy of Olympic relay racers; how Maxfield Parrish used his imagination to paint a whimsical dragon; how Jean Baptiste Chardin painted a boy blowing a soap bubble so realistically that it seems you could pop the bubble with your finger; and how Dick West depicted a community of Native Americans enjoying a winter field day.

At its core are the words of the last monk himself

this is the most complete collection assembled on his collages

scholars' rocks

tennis court

In each volume Allen Hoffman draws on his deep knowledge of Jewish religion and history to evoke the finite yet infinite "small worlds" his characters inhabit

it has relevance for today

founded as early as the thirteenth century

at childhood’s everyday pleasures

The first volume of The Grand Cascapedia River recounts the discovery of the river’s salmon by adventurous outdoorsmen in the 1840s

Yechiel Katzman finds himself on a train of imprisoned Jews as it leaves the Warsaw ghetto on Yom Kippur—the Day of Atonement—for "resettlement in the East

In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War II in the Pacific

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