Publisher Comments

This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media.

Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern t... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

For the omnivorous mind on your list, the perfect book is Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery by (none other than) David Attenborough, et al ($37.50). A brilliant commingling of art, history and science, this spectacular volume focuses on artistic representation of plants and animals from the 15th through the mid-18th centuries. Early depictions of New World flora and ... read more>>>