Nineteenth-century neoclassical sculpture was a highly politicized international movement. Based in Rome, many expatriate American sculptors created works that represented black female subjects in compelling and problematic ways. Rejecting pigment as dangerous and sensual, adherence to white marble abandoned the racialization of the black body by skin color. In The Color of Stone, Charmaine A. Nelson brilliantly analyzes a key, but often neglected, aspect of neoclassical sculpture--color. Considering three major works--Hiram Powers's Greek Slave, William Wetmore Story's Cleopatra, and Edmonia Lewis's Death of Cleopatra--she explores the intersection of race, sex, and class to reveal the meanings each work holds in terms of colonial histories of visual representation as well as issues of artistic production, identity, and subjectivity. She also juxtaposes these sculptures with other types of art to scrutinize prevalent racial discourses and to examine how the black female subject was made visible in high art. By establishing the centrality of race within the discussion of neoclassical sculpture, Nelson provides a model for a black feminist art history that at once questions and destabilizes canonical texts. Charmaine A. Nelson is assistant professor of art history at McGill University.

A girl grieves the loss of her dog in an achingly beautiful wordless epic from the Caldecott Honor–winning creator of Journey. This year’s summer vacation will be very different for a young girl and her family without Sascha, the beloved family dog, along for the ride. But a wistful walk along the beach to gather cool, polished stones becomes a brilliant turning point in the girl’s grief. There, at the edge of a vast ocean beneath an infinite sky, she uncovers, alongside the reader, a profound and joyous truth. In his first picture book following the conclusion of his best-selling Journey trilogy, Aaron Becker achieves a tremendous feat, connecting the private, personal loss of one child to a cycle spanning millennia — and delivering a stunningly layered tale that demands to be pored over again and again.

STONE MOSAIC. BOOK 1 Stress-free color by number book. Try this stress-free color by number book by coloring different stone shapes to reveal the picture. Big and small circles and ovals colored in the same 22-colors palette as in all other our books will make the process of coloring relaxing and the result colorful and bright. Enjoy this new series of color by number books! Try the other book series by the Belba Family: The MOSAIC color by number ART activity book series includes: -TRAVEL MOSAIC Color by Number ART activity book -ANIMAL MOSAIC Color by number ART activity book Color by number & Coloring version books: CHRISTMAS & TRAVEL MOSAICS. An adult book with relaxing pages of Christmas scenes around the world.THE MONEY BOOK. AN ADULT MAGIC BOOK WITH MONEY & RICHNESS SYMBOLS TO COLOR.FAIRIES AROUND US. Stained Glass & Magic Mosaics. An Adult book for Relaxation and Stress Relief. MYSTERY MOSICS BOOKS SERIES WITH 3*3MM. SECTIONS: - MYSTERY MOSAIC. PASSION - MYSTERY MOSAICS. DOGS - MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOMAN - SQUARE MANDALAS - MYSTERY MOSAICS. GALLERY - MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOW, CATS! - SQUARE MANDALAS. ANIMALS IN PATTERNS. - MYSTERY MOSAICS. CINEMA - LISA'S GARDEN. SQUARE MANDALAS, PATTERNS AND MORE - MYSTERY MOSAICS. WOW, ANIMALS! - MYSTERY MOSAIC. FLOWERS - MYSTERY MOSAIC. ARIANE'S VINTAGE COLLECTION - PARTY PATTERNS And more... PUZZLE COLOR BY NUMBER CLEVER BOOK SERIES: BEGINNER level (no background): -SIMPLE BEAUTY -HUMAN FACES ADVANCED level (with background): -EXOTIC LIFE -SECRET PATTERNS HAPPY COLORING!

There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.

A broken man, Khraen awakens alone and lost. His stone heart has been shattered, littered across the world. With each piece, he regains some small shard of the man he once was. He follows the trail, fragment by fragment, remembering his terrible past. There was a woman. There was a sword. There was an end to sorrow. Khraen walks the obsidian path.

In this story Alice Walker teaches that our love for family and friiends brings us the most powerful peace and happiness of all.

In this moving companion to the Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat, Brendan Wenzel tells the story of a seemingly ordinary stone. But it isn't just a stone—to the animals that use it, it's a resting place, a kitchen, a safe haven...even an entire world. With stunning illustrations in cut paper, pencil, collage, and paint, and soothing rhythms that invite reading aloud, A Stone Sat Still is a gorgeous exploration of perspective, perception, sensory experience, color, size, function, and time, with an underlying environmental message that is timely and poignant. Once again Wenzel shows himself to be a master of the picture book form.