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book cover The Paintings of Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (The years 1887-1903)
The Paintings of Paul Gauguin — Bretagne, Martinique, Tahiti and the Marquesas
Edited by Michael Schemmann.
Paul Gauguin was a leading French post-impressionist artist and an important figure in the symbolist movement. While he was poor and struggling during his career as an artist (he was a Paris stock broker before), today his famous paintings are fetching tens of millions of dollars at auctions in New York and London.
This book includes 310 paintings on 224 color plates (many from private collections not normally available to public view), a detailed biography, a eulogy by Charles Morice (1903), excerpts from Gauguin's fascinating book "Noa Noa," and is a rather large collection in one compendium covering the prolific artist's most dramatic and expressive 'impressionist' period from 1887 to his death in 1903. The places of creation were Martinique in the Caribbean; an artist-village in Brittany (Pont-Aven); and Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. ISBN 978-1466439894 258 pages, 224 color plates, 8½ x 11 in.

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Vincent van Gogh (The years 1881-1890)
The Paintings of Vincent van Gogh — Holland, Paris, Arles and Auvers
Edited by Michael Schemmann.
This book contains over 500 paintings on 230 color plates, many of which are in private collections and not easily accessible. The book includes a detailed biography and a eulogy by contemporary artists: Emile Barnard and Paul Gauguin. Vincent van Gogh lived 120 years ago, and yet his artwork is still altering the way we view beauty, persona, individuality, and style in art.
Van Gogh did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during his last two years. He died at the age of 37. In just over a decade, van Gogh produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolours, drawings, sketches and prints. His many paintings and drawings have been copied by thousands but duplicated by none. What people today consider the archetypical artistic persona is largely the result of his influence.
ISBN 978-1467970556 Paperback 258 pages 8½ x 11 inches, illustrated.
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Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926)
The Paintings of Claude Monet
Edited by Michael Schemmann.
On 484 pages, this book includes a detailed biography, a resume written by Monet himself (in English and French), and over 900 paintings on 460 colour plates (large format 8? x 11 inches), as well as a special section of Monet's famous Water Lilies Series, and the Series of the London Parliament Buildings and Bridges. Monet's paintings obtain record prices at auctions. Le Pont du chemin de fer - Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought for a record $41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6th May 2008. The previous record for Monet's painting stood at $36.5 million. Le basin aux nypheas (from the water lilies series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 for 40,921,250 pounds ($80,451,178) setting a new auction record for the artist. Nympheas - Water Lilies sold for $71,846,600. This was one of the highest prices paid for Monet's work.

ISBN 978-1468068443 Paperback 484 pages 8½ x 11 inches.
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book cover The Japanese Woodcuts of Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858)
The Japanese Woodcusts of Hiroshige
Compiled and edited by Michael Schemmann.
This book contains 106 full colour pictures of the artist's famous woodcuts and a detailed biography. Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was a Japanese painter and printmaker transmuting everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes that made him successful. Hiroshige dominated the popular art of Japan in the first half of the 19th century. His work was not as bold or innovative as that of the older masters, but he captured in a poetic and gentle way that people could understand the ordinary person's experience of the Japanese landscape as well as the varied moods of memorable places at different times. His total output was immense: some 5400 prints in all. ISBN 978-1468153149 86 pages, 106 full color pictures, 8½ x 11 in.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864-1901)
The Paintings of Toulouse-Lautrec
Compiled and edited by Michael Schemmann.
This book contains a detailed biography and 350 paintings on 334 full colour plates. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was and remains a remarkable paradox, writes Florence Coman, Curator of French Paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Scion of an ancient aristocratic family, he spent his adult life among the common people of Paris and Montmartre, even taking rooms in a brothel, and he made the city's seamy night life, cafes, cabarets, dance halls, and theaters the principal subject of his art. Montmartre became established by the 1890s as an enclave famous for its naughty nightly revelry; the community flourished with the tourist trade attracted by advertisements in the popular press and by eye-catching posters. Lautrec's painting Marcelle Lender Dancing the Bolero in Chilpéric chronicles the spirit, style, and spectacle of the 1890s, and underscores Lautrec's fascination with the ambiguous boundaries between art and artifice, and between 'high' and 'low' art. This work, along with his related paintings, drawings, and lithographs, embodies the artist's ultimately egalitarian vision of life and art. — ISBN 978-1468197099 — 348 pages 8½ x 11 inches, 337 full color plates.

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Tenzin Dawa (2011)
Isan — Quiet Splendor
Many writers treat the landscape of Isan with disdain, writes Peter Rogers. Lacking the densely forested splendor of northern Thai mountains or the easy lure of the southern palm-fringed beaches, there is little to be said of repetitive vistas of rice paddies and low hills. "Yet those better acquainted with the Northeast... its charm reveals itself shyly to the connoisseur of Thailand's varied scenery and not to those impressed only by the visual clichés of the tourist posters... The quite splendor of the Isan landscape, a landscape that can take on the serenity of the far horizons of a Sibelius symphony or a painting by Cezanne� rice fields and buffalos, its hills and forests. These immemorial views, changing seasonally, are never far from the heart of the Isan rural scene, encompassing a land that today is less modified by the hand of man than any other part of Thailand." ISBN 978-1466373198 Paperback 114 pages, illustrated.
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book cover Theravada Buddhism

Tenzin Dawa (2011)
Thailand Buddhism.
Insight Knowledge
An introduction to 'Theravada Buddhism' practiced in Thailand; a teaching helping people through their lives who are free to believe what they wish, even disagree with the 'Blessed One'. Buddhism is tolerant of 'divergent views', wherefore ancient animistic spirit worship and the belief in, and fear of, ghosts, is ever present. 'Spirit houses' are even found on temple grounds. Buddhism is not a scientific revelation, but an elaborate system of classifications of insight knowledge in the abstract neatly placed into an ordering system: 'Knowledge is truth and can be classified according to right knowledge, or to wrong knowledge and applied in three forms: doctrine, revelation, or personal knowledge, that is, intelligence.' ISBN 978-1461078678 Paperback 102 pages, illustrated.
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Tenzin Dawa (2011)
Nai Luang — Beloved King of Thailand. A History of the Chakri Dynasty.

The author maintains that the independence and integrity of Thailand is assured by three unifying factors: (1) The Thais' carefree disposition, (2) the tolerant Buddhist religion, and (3) the Thai throne. For seven centuries Thailand has successfully survived as an independent nation while her neighbours disintegrated or fell victim of imperial colonial powers, followed by dictators, cultural revolutions and exterminations. Thailand's unique and sacred institutions survive and flourish; without either one of them, Thais cannot foresee what their country would be like. The book covers the Geography, People, Customs, History of the Ruling Kings and their Governments. — A fascinating documentary right up to the present (2011). ISBN 978-1463697822 Paperback, 294 pages

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Sir Charles Eliot (1921)
Buddhism (Vol. III of Hinduism and Buddhism)
Sir Charles Eliot (1921) — a renowned British knight diplomat, colonial administrator and botanist — describes on about 400 pages the History and Practices of Buddhism in Asia and Influences in the Western World. According to the author, the spread of Hindu and Buddhist thought was an intellectual conquest, not an exchange of ideas. The influence of Indian religion on Christianity is part of the wider question of its influence on the west generally. From 200 B.C. until 300 A.D. oriental religion played a considerable part in the countries round the Mediterranean. In the author's view, "When all allowance is made for similar causes and coincidences, it is hard to believe that a collection of such practices as clerical celibacy, confession, the veneration of relics, the use of the rosary and bells can have originated independently in both religions." 398 pages ISBN 978-1466333000.

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book cover Freud Dream Psychology

Sigmund Freud (1920)
Dream Psychology. Psycho-analysis for Beginners.
Sigmund Freud's (1920) discoveries of the unconscious received a scornful reception by the medical; he was first laughed at and then avoided as a crank. Freud's theories are anything but theoretical, but a pragmatic view that "truth is what works. Five facts of first magnitude were made obvious to the world by his interpretation of dreams: First, a constant connection between some part of every dream and some detail of the dreamer's life during the previous waking state. Secondly, secret thoughts in every dream and the attempted or successful gratification of some wish, conscious or unconscious. Thirdly, dream visions are symbolical but transparent to the trained observer. Fourthly, sexual desires play an enormous part in our unconscious, a part which puritanical hypocrisy has always tried to minimize, and finally a direct connection between dreams and insanity. ISBN 978-1466234246 Paperback 144 pages.
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Sigmund Freud (3e 1914)
Theory of Sex. Freud has been able to establish on a firm footing the remarkable thesis that psychoneurotic illnesses never occur with a perfectly normal sexual life. Other sorts of emotions contribute to the result, but some aberration of the sexual life is always present, as the cause of especially insistent emotions and repressions. The instincts with which each child is born furnish desires or cravings which must be dealt with in some fashion. They may be so far as is necessary and desirable into energies of other sorts - as happens readily with the play-instinct - or they may remain as the source of perversions and inversions, and of cravings of new sorts substituted for those of the more primitive kinds under the pressure of a conventional civilization. The symptoms of the functional psychoneuroses represent, after a fashion, some of these distorted attempts to find a substitute for the imperative cravings born of the sexual instincts, and their form often depends, in part at least, on the peculiarities of the sexual life in infancy and early childhood. ISBN 978-1466237308 pbk. 98 pages
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