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John Piper
Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (John Piper Small Group)
by Crossway Books (Paperback)

This group-member study guide reinforces John Piper’s DVD presentations on what it means to behold and delight in Jesus above all things.In 2 Corinthians, the apostle Paul described one of the central problems facing humanity in every age: people fail to see Christ for who he is. Even those who have caught a glimpse of him do not see perfectly, says best-selling author John Piper. But it is important that we not only learn to see him but delight in him and the truth of the gospel. This study guide—a companion to the Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ DVD—explores the meaning and significance of these ideas in an eight-session, guided group study. With its opportunities for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week, this full-length guide walks group members through Piper’s compelling DVD presentation, in addition to supplementing Piper’s book by the same name. Combining the Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ Study Guide with the DVD will enable ...

Mark Rothko
by Skira (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-06-10)

Recently breaking the record price for post-war art at a Sotheby’s auction, Rothko’s White Centre (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) is indicative of this artist’s tremendous and enduring legacy as a master of color. This beautifully produced, oversized monograph presents roughly 100 works (70 paintings in full-color plates and 28 drawings) from private and public collections, tracking the evolution of his signature style. The monograph begins with Rothko’s early work, focusing specifically on the delicate hues and subtle textures of his relatively small paintings on gesso board. It continues with an exploration of the stratified and chalky color that appear in his surrealist works that signal his increasing pull toward abstractionism and ends with a survey of his mature works, where all of these techniques culminate into the gradated colors in rectangular forms that would become hallmarks of his style. The portion addressing his late works is divided into three ...

David Douglas Duncan
Picasso & Lump: A Dachshund's Odyssey
by Bulfinch (Hardcover)

One spring morning in 1957, veteran photojournalist David Douglas Duncan paid a visit to his friend and frequent photographic subject Pablo Picasso, at the artistÕs villa near Cannes. As copilot alongside Duncan in his Mercedes Gullwing 300 SL was the photographerÕs dachshund, Lump. Photographer and dog were close companions, but DuncanÕs nomadic lifestyle and his other dog Ñ a giant Afghan hound who had tormented the autocratic and temperamental Lump Ñ made home life in Rome difficult. When they arrived at PicassoÕs Villa La Californie that historic day, Lump decided that he had found paradise on earth, and that he would move in with Picasso, whether the artist wanted him to or not. This is the background for an utterly original book that offers an uncommonly sensitive portrait of Picasso. Lump was immortalized in a Picasso portrait painted on a plate the day they met, but that was just the beginning. In a suite of 45 paintings reinterpreting Vel‡squezÕs masterpiece ...

Tom Rockwell
Best of Norman Rockwell
by Running Press (Hardcover)

John Richardson
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Vol 3)
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2007-11-13)

The long-awaited third volume of John Richardson’s definitive biography of Pablo Picasso combines the critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and stunning narrative that made the first two volumes an art-historical breakthrough as well as a pleasure to read.The Triumphant Years takes up the artist’s life in 1917, when Picasso and Cocteau left wartime Paris for Rome to work with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes on their revolutionary production of Parade. Visits to Naples, above all to the Farnese marbles in the Museo Nazionale, would leave Picasso with a lifelong obsession with classical sculpture as well as the self-referential commedia dell’arte. After returning to Paris and marrying one of Diaghilev’s ballerinas, Olga Khokhlova, he abandoned bohemia for the drawing rooms of Paris. Hence, his so-called Duchess period, which coincided with his switch to neoclassicism, and would ultimately be absorbed into a metamorphic form of cubism.In the summer of 1923, Picasso and his ...

John Piper
What's the Difference?: Manhood and Womanhood Defined According to the Bible (John Piper Small Group)
by Crossway Books (Paperback)

A six-session, guided group study spotlighting John Piper’s teaching on biblical manhood and womanhood and the impact of living out God’s design. Scripture is clear that manhood and womanhood are the beautiful handiwork of a good and loving God, contends John Piper in What’s the Difference? “God designed our differences, and they are profound.” Yet when rightly understood according to God’s Word, his vision for both men and women is not oppressive, prideful, or self-promoting. “It conforms to who we are by God’s good design. Therefore it is fulfilling in the deepest sense of that word.” This study guide—a companion to the What’s the Difference? DVD—commends the beauty and the biblical truth of God’s plan for men and women as part of a six-session, guided group study. Each lesson comes complete with Scripture and key quotations for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week to both prepare group members for and reinforce ...

Desmond Rochfort
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
by Chronicle Books (Paperback)

Luis Martin Lozano, Juan Coronel Rivera
Diego Rivera, The Complete Murals
by Taschen (Hardcover)

Diego in detail: The most comprehensive study of Rivera's work ever made A veritable folk hero in Latin America and Mexico's most important artist - along with his wife, painter Frida Kahlo - Diego Rivera (1886-1957) led a passionate life devoted to art and communism. After spending the 1910s in Europe, where he surrounded himself with other artists and embraced the Cubist movement, he returned to Mexico and began to paint the large-scale murals for which he is most famous. In his murals, he addressed social and political issues relating to the working class, earning him prophetic status among the peasants of Mexico. He was invited to create works abroad, most notably in the United States, where he stirred up controversy by depicting Lenin in his mural for the Rockefeller Center in New York City (the mural was destroyed before it was finished). Rivera's most remarkable work is his 1932 Detroit Industry, a group of 27 frescos at the Detroit Institute ...

John Piper
The Roots of Endurance: Invincible Perseverance in the Lives of John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce (Piper, John, Swans Are Not Silent, V. 3.)
by Crossway Books (Hardcover)

John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries—without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are examples of remarkable grace. In Book 3 in The Swans Are Not Silent series, best-selling author John Piper looks at the lives of these three great men and focuses on how they not only endured great opposition, but that they did so with joy and without bitterness. Their lives exemplify how to set a pace and finish the race before us, encouraging every heart that it is possible to jump the hurdles in our paths.

Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting
by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2002-02-02)

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