Vibrant paintings of daylight and moonlight landscapes, figures, and still lifes captivate the eye and spirit in the first publication of Roz Jacobs' work. Covering 10 years during which she began serious exploration of time and memory, many of the paintings in this volume were made in southwestern France. As this rural area has been changing for the past 20 years, Jacobs has been capturing in paint the eternal qualities of the light, air and landscape that attracted the Impressionists and Fauves before her. Grounded in European tradition, she brings her unique tactile approach, creating lush semi-abstract paintings. The paintings reflect a deep understanding of light, space, and composition and are a feast for the senses. Roz Jacobs' recently collaborated with Laurie Weisman to create The Memory Project, a multimedia installation that explores the relationship between loss, memory and the creative process. Jacobs' mother, a Holocaust survivor, narrates the art installation with riveting testimony about her brother and their attempt to escape from the Warsaw Ghetto. The Memory Project is currently touring museums in the US and internationally. Memory Project installation photos together with photos of Jacobs painting accentuate the point that the title of this volume makes-that Jacobs invites the viewer into her process. Jacobs studied with the late Norman Raeben at his Carnegie Hall studio from 1973-1978. Raeben, the youngest son of Sholom Alechem, studied with George Luks and Robert Henri, members of the Ashcan School. Jacobs has also written screenplays, designed sets and written books for children. She resides in NYC and part of the year in southwestern France. (Includes 48 color plates)

This Body Mystery is a work of twenty-three paintings and poems written in the voices of those who were affected by the AIDS epidemic in Cambodia. It is a book of poems about the historical past, the impoverished and voiceless, the trauma that carried over to the newer generation, and how love and the natural urges of humans to find sex and intimacy lead to other forms of physical and emotional violence, which in turn, continued this cycle of human suffering. Yet, amidst great humanstruggles for survival, there emerge voices of hope and resiliency. The Body Mystery includes 23 color paintings and an additional collection of twenty new poems.

I felt like my feet were burning, Anna Huberman Jacobs says, describing the day in 1945 that she went back to her home in Wloclawek, Poland. Anna had survived life in the Warsaw ghetto, escape, imprisonment at a Nazi labor camp, and near starvation in post-Liberation Poland. On returning home, Anna learned that she was the sole survivor of her family. It was the worst day of her life. For Anna, finding Kalman that day meant leaving Wloclawek with a photograph of her brother that a neighbor's child had pulled from the garbage. It was the only remainder of her family's personal belongings. Left with just memories and the single photo, Anna began her new life. Years later, the image of Kalman, forever a child in the photograph, captured the imagination of Anna's daughter Roz, a curious, artistic child who wanted to know every detail of the story that her mother was clearly not completely sharing with her. For Roz as a child, finding Kalman meant gazing at his image, fantasizing that she would bring this lost brother back to her mother. As an adult, finding Kalman was discovering his identity in every brushstroke as Roz worked to recapture his essence over and over again on her canvas and in the creation of a multimedia artwork: The Memory Project. Finding Kalman: A Boy In Six Million weaves Anna's story of escape and survival with Roz's desire to have a purposeful life, to answer destruction through the act of creating. Kalman's voice, though silenced, remains loud in the lives of both mother and daughter in this story of memory, self-discovery and creation.

Poppin' Fresh declares martial law-Che Guevara loses his good looks and throws the entire U.S. Left into disarray-Zombie terrorist anchor babies invade the Pentagon. You'll read all this and more in Snidelines: Talking Trash to Power, a startling collection of personal essays and political satire that offers a perverse moral clarity to an increasingly amoral world. Ace reporter Susie Day brings us fast-breaking faux news; pens heartrendingly squalid lesbian grand opera; and dispenses an array of helpful hints, from how to avoid indefinite detention at Guant namo, to what to do if you happen to fall in love with a political prisoner. Taking on a combustible mash-up of horrors brought to us by our ever-watchful-corporate-feel-good-war-mongering benefactors, Snidelines is an existentialist survival manual that actually makes it fun to fear the unknown.

Nicholas Nevius and his best pal Jude are two curious, adventure-seeking boys who secretly love to be scared. One sunny afternoon, Nicholas the free-spirit and Jude the serious- minded, set out on a quest to explore a foreboding, mysterious place atop a distant, mist-shrouded hill. They find what at first seems an astonishingly ominous place: a creaking, old cemetery... for pets But as the boys explore the humorous headstones that tell the tale of each pet, the sadness over the loss of such beloved animals is gradually dispelled. They grow to love this magical resting place. With enjoyably rhyming, vocabulary-stretching text, and gorgeously colorful illustrations that underscore an imaginative wit and delight in whimsy, NICHOLAS NEVIUS is full of entertaining surprises. A gift to children all ages, especially those dealing with loss.

Mia Natalie Kamensky's Art for a Cure: Paintings and Drawings: 2012-2017, presents 58 original works created when the artist was between the ages of six and eleven. While this wide-ranging catalog offers a unique view of the world from the mind and eye of a child, it is also a passion project that speaks to the depth of her heart. All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Department of Pediatrics.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Gregory Crane, Drawings 1979 - 2009, April 29 - May 30th, 2009 at Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, NYC. This publication is compiled of 41 color plates, 96 interior pages, accompanied with an essay by Trevor Winkfield and writings by Carl Little and Simon Lane. The artwork in Gregory Crane, Drawings 1979 - 2009 consists of a selective representation of drawings by Gregory Crane that span three decades of the artist's career. Gregory Crane was born in 1951 in Bremerton, WA. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts in 1975 from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. After completion of his degree, Crane enrolled at The Art Students League in New York City; studying there from 1976 - 1980. After his time at the League, Gregory continued to reside New York City, eventually settling in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Gregory Crane is known for his paintings and works on paper that represent his colorist mastery, keen observation, composition, and draftsmanship. Drawing is the heart and soul, the anatomy of what might become a painting. Gregory Crane

The Rain Parade tells the story of photographer, Julia Blaukopf when, in 2006, she traveled to Ghana to work with Women in Progress, an organization that empowers women through a sustainable business of clothing production called Global Mamas. Woven into The Rain Parade are Blaukopf's experiences of the everyday, of mothers, artisans, leaders, workers, and women who use imagination to achieve prosperity for their families and their country. During this time she traveled throughout the country visiting the bead-making region, mountain villages, a remote fishing village, the big city of Accra, and the homes of Ghanaian artisans and professionals. Blaukopf scribed her experiences into a journal, detailing the moments of each day. These written impressions interact with Blaukopf's photographs to create her story - a time that becomes a dream. Julia Blaukopf is a Philadelphia-based photographer and social documentarian. She has worked as a creative partner with organizations and businesses in Germany, Copenhagen, Kenya, Ghana, Lithuania and throughout the US. In 2005, Julia worked with a community-run reforestation project in Kenya. A year later she traveled back to Africa to photograph for the Ghanaian organization Women in Progress. Julia has also traveled extensively in the United States, focusing her lens on women artisans and their work in the creative sector. Julia worked with Women in Progress as a photographer and a liaison to help promote the women's craft in the U.S. Her goal is to create artistic work that promotes social and political efforts, to create images that embody the mission of Women in Progress, and to help raise awareness for the women artisans' crafting businesses through batiking, sewing, and bead making.

The brightly colored paintings and monotypes of bison, goats, stags and antelope in this collection celebrate the shapes and structure of horns and antlers--the spiraling and coiling horns of goats and sheep, the smooth horns of cattle, the meandering or lyre-shaped horns of antelope, and the regal crowns of stags--paired, branched or forked.

The paintings in Horned and Antlered Animals are artist Valentina DuBasky's response to her travels on the Silk Routes in China, Central and Southeast Asia, and in India, where, as a Fulbright Senior Specialist, opportunities to research Buddhist cave paintings and ancient art provided new inspiration for the work. In India, she was immersed in a world of spectacular colors out of which emerged a new color palette: yellows of marigold, tints of coral, tangerine, mango, flame-orange, ochre, aubergine and sienna, the fullest range of blues, greens, violets and all the compliments.

The horned and antlered animal paintings explore the relationship between ancient art and the contemporary imagination through thick impasto paint, incised lines and expressive brushwork. Pitched on the edge of abstraction, the images may be read as animal, abstraction, landscape or still life. Each painting begins with a rectangle that is bisected or divided into areas of color to activate the balance of forms, the relationships of color and the behavior of the materials. Imagination and materials lead the way. The image is present and absent at the same time. (30 color plates)

Becky's hair is the messiest This new illustrated children's book, Becky's Braids, will make you smile. After grandmother teaches Becky to braid and bake challahs the family is in for a surprise. Recipe to make Becky's Challah included. Written by Susan Weiss and illustrated by Deborah Gross-Zuchman author and illustrator of Seder for the 21^stCentury.

After is a book of letters in the form of poems that poignantly describes the author's life and experiences as a child before, during and after the Khmer Rouge. It traces the author's journey out of Cambodia to the United States and the experiences he had thereafter, through loss of and separation from family members, a kind of unity emerges as each poem addresses the author's yearning to make sense of one of the greatest tragedies of our world.

Seamus, alias Twist, is on the Eurostar train from Paris to London to see his twin brother for a birthday lunch. He tells us the story of his love affair with Elska, the captivating Finnish wife of his American friend, Flyte. The lyricism of his account is inspired by his late father, an Irish poet. Twist has sold one of his father's poems to an American record producer, so financing his boulevardier lifestyle and residence at the Alabama Hotel on the Left Bank. It's a geometrical tale. A love triangle. Twist looking through the two circles of 300, the speed of the train in kph. And his photographer friend, Agostini, constrained by edges. Above all, it's about people colliding, the protagonists caught in time and in the prism of Twist's mind. As the relationships play out, observe and savour those tender poetic moments when hearts, souls and bodies combine.

Summer on the Hill is the first book devoted exclusively to paintings by Philip Zuchman. The book's thirty seven paintings, as well as sketches and quotes from his notebook, were part of what he accomplished during a productive two month stay on Patten Hill in Shelburne, Massachusetts. Patten Hill is a unique rural environment that has farmland, wetland, forest and a nature preserve with touches of wilderness. Zuchman has painted on Patten Hill for close to thirty years and sees it as an ideal, diversified environment. The book begins with a critical essay by the Artist-teacher- writer Peter London, that examines the unique qualities, dedication to a theme and the more and less of Zuchman's prolific career. Zuchman has been a plein-air painter for fifty years during which time he has developed unique knife painting techniques and working methods. For many years his field painting trips have been to New England, across America, South America and Europe. His devotion to the landscape has roots in his poetic and philosophical understandings of man's finding place and living within it rather than the self-destructive will to dominate. Zuchman has exhibited in twenty countries on five continents and has served as an American Cultural Ambassador for the United States State Department.

Valentina DuBasky draws on her experiences in India through the Fulbright Specialist Program, as well as her travels to see ancient art, cave sites, painted temple walls, and groups of petroglyphs along the Silk Route in China, India, Central Asia and Southeast Asia to create this exciting series of horse, stag and bison paintings.

Painted with thick impasto oil paint, and positioned on the edge of abstraction, DuBasky's paintings can be read as animal, still life, landscape or abstraction. Brush marks painted on or within layers of thick paint, or incised into plaster, allow the surface to become a strata that both reveals and conceals the images. The relationships between myth and form, and between totemic art and the unconscious mind, guide the artist's process. (22 color plates)

The animals seem to evoke something totemic--a taproot to the first art created on cave walls. I could not help but think that these animals have been with us for a long time. They have accompanied us on our collective, human journey from the caves to the present. In our own time, horses, stags and bison still enter our imagination mythically, bringing a sense of wonder, power and delight. -- Valentina DuBasky

The paintings of bison, stags, horses, and goats by Valentina DuBasky are inspired by her travels on the Silk Routes in China, India, Central and Southeast Asia, where she researched cave paintings and ancient art. Created with thick impasto paint and incised markings, the paintings have been created in the rich colors of the Silk Routes-madder, cinnabar, garnet, rose, indigo, amber, plum, ochre, and jade. The paintings celebrate the spiraling and coiling horns of goats, the lyre-shaped horns of bison, the branching antlers of stags, and the spotted coats of horses.

The energy of animals that live in nature-and in the human imagination-guide the artist's process, evoking an imaginary world of the beasts of the Silk Routes.

Oron Tal's 11 Paintings and Drawings: 2010-2012, presents 50 original works of art that demonstrate the breadth and depth of Oron's creativity, intellect and skill in expressing his ideas and interpreting the world around him. Artist Valentina DuBasky presents her student, Oron Tal, age 11, in his first solo exhibition. In 2010, Valentina accepted Oron, then an eight year old student, after recognizing his passion for art. For two years, he has been coming to Valentina's painting studio in the West Village in New York City for weekly art lessons. This exhibition marks Oron's first two years of art study with a selection of paintings and drawings in a variety of media on the themes of travel, reading, media, fashion, and family. This book celebrates the beginning of a unique creative journey of a young artist. Oron donated proceeds from the sale of his artwork to Beit Issie Shapiro, Israel's most effective nonprofit organization in 2012.

Valentina DuBasky's modern-day cave-wall paintings of horses, stags and birds explore the correspondences between ancient art and the contemporary imagination. Totemic animals are juxtaposed with petroglyphs and plants that appear and fade within layers of paint to suggest a natural ecosystem in which all life is interdependent. In some of the paintings, a single-image of a horse, stag or bison is pitched on the edge of abstraction and can be read as animal, abstraction, landscape or still life. The paintings are inspired by the artist's travels along the Silk Route in China, India, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, where she researched Buddhist cave paintings and ancient art to prepare for her own modern-day, cave-wall paintings. DuBasky follows the link of the animals from their source in ancient art along a continuum that stretches from cave paintings to figurative expressionism. (13 color plates)

'The Real Illusion' is an anthology of twenty-one stories spanning nearly three decades. Simon Lane's writing offers a journey of the mind, reflecting the peripatetic nature of the author's life, or lives. Sharp reportage joins lyrical and metaphorical explorations of the human condition to create a world of its own, always tinted with the most refined sense of humour, no matter what the subject. Enjoy the ride, from Los Angeles to London, from Iceland to Mexico. This will entertain and inspire the most well-travelled reader, indeed anyone seeking a moment's respite within the eye of the storm. Simon Lane was born in England. After graduating from art school in London in 1979, he lived successively in Berlin, Milan and New York. In 1988, he based himself in Paris. His poetry, short stories, essays and drawings have appeared in a variety of publications throughout Europe and the United States. He has also worked in film, television and radio, as a writer and as an actor. He is the author of four novels, Le Veilleur, Still-life with Books, Fear and Boca a Boca (Word of Mouth). In 2001, he moved to Rio de Janeiro. Tunga is Brazil's foremost contemporary artist. He has exhibited at the Louvre, the Jeu de Paume and many other museums and galleries worldwide. Over the past twenty years, he and Lane have collaborated on projects in a wide range of media. An artful writer, and a funny one...Boredom is never a danger. -New York Times Lane offers...a prismatic language that for all its obvious intelligence and wit never places the reader at a distance. -Publisher's Weekly I like the hell out of Lane, the movie and the man, and with my whole heart I endorse him in these respects. -Gordon Lish

Windows Into War is a book of poems and paintings about war from a mother's point of view. Every mother, whether her son has gone to war or not, will understand the poems and paintings as expressions of heartfelt anxiety, fear and love. Understanding a mother's lament about the possibility of losing a child is universal. Deborah Gross-Zuchman is a painter who exhibits internationally and has work in private, corporate and public collections.