The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

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From its founding in 1648, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and its successor, the école nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, were devoted to the Greek model. Mythology and poetry, along with the study of sculpture, were the foundations of academic teaching there. As a result, Greek gods and heroes were reborn in innumerable works by pupils and teachers of the école. This lavishly illustrated book explores the impact of the poet Homer on four centuries of French artists through the lens of the école’s superb collections of paintings, prints, and sculptures.

The école was the most important venue for academic training of artists in Europe as well as for many nineteenth-century American artists who studied in Paris, including Thomas Eakins and John Singer Sargent. The école’s collections—which feature works by great artists who were first students and later instructors (François LeMoine, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres)—were intended to enhance students’ taste through study and emulation.

With illuminating texts by prominent French scholars and a preface by George Steiner on the reception of Homer in France, The Legacy of Homer examines the historic and artistic importance of the works housed in the école and pays homage to Homer, the great source that inspired them.

Antiquities true & false.(The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris) : An article from: New Criterion

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Antiquities true & false.(The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris) : An article from: New Criterion
Karen Wilkin
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Title: Antiquities true & false.(The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris)
Author: Karen Wilkin
Publication: New Criterion (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 38(5)

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The Legacy of Homer : Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

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The Legacy of Homer : Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Emmanuel Schwartz
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSHGJG

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Atget's Gardens : A Selection of Eugene Atget's Garden Photographs
Eugene; Adams, William Howard; Royal Institute of British Architects; International Exhibitions Foundation; International Center of Photography Atget
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OM85HE

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Atget's gardens: A selection of Eugene Atget's garden photographs (A Dolphin book)
William Howard Adams
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0385153201

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Atget's Gardens: A Selection of Eugene Atget's Garden Photographs.
WILLIAM HOWARD ADAMS
Manufacturer: See notes
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RQL0ZQ

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Atget's Gardens: A Selection of Eugene Atget's Garden Photographs
Eugene] Adams, William Howard [Atget
Manufacturer: Doubleday
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KUN7BE

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Fun for the whole year!.......2007-01-11

These calenders are always great fun. My wife and I have been enjoying these for the last six years. We always have fun opening our calendar and looking at the pictures for the first time. We then get to enjoy them all year long! Buy it and enjoy it!

Great engagement calendar.......2006-11-10

I always buy these--they are very sturdy--pages are a heavy card stock. Lots of room--each week covers two pages (left and right). This year's version has a hard cover. The heavy spiral binding allows easy page turning, and laying the calendar open flat. The cats that adorn each page are Kliban--nothing more needs to be said!

The Best Calendar on the Market.......2006-11-08

I first bought this calendar for the 2006 year, and what struck me was just how nice the layout was compared to other engagement calendars on the market. Most others have smaller boxes for each day (7 days per page)- this one has 3-4. Also, I hate the ones that have lines. This one has large blank boxes to fit larger writing. Hard cover is a bonus, too.

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Fantastic Kliban Cats
Essential Kliban

CatCalendar 2007: 365 Days of Cats

Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764934228

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Fantastic Kliban Cats.......2007-05-07

With a humorous, artistic, colorful and different cat drawing to start each day...this is a terrific choice for a daily calendar.

Essential Kliban.......2006-08-18

This is a decadent essential for B.Kliban fans, featuring the classic tabby etchings, each with their gloriously lunatic attitude. Every flip of the calendar page is a quirky delight. The fearlessly intrepid cats leap into adventures that would cause less resolute felines to hiss and flee. From the singing of "nibbling on they little [mousie] toes" to snorkeling, napping, sumo wrestling, and great lashings of the tail, these kitties never cease to divert and amuse.

Each weekday bears a single full color reproduction of one of B. Kliban's famous drawings. Saturdays and Sundays share a semi-rampant tabby bearing a banner with such observations as `Gone Fishing', `Napping', `In Hiding' or `Star Gazing'.

I have ordered one of these calendars each year for about a decade now and wouldn't dream of starting my year without the latest edition. It is a marvelous gift for any cat fancier, and should bring a broad smile to those who have enjoyed Kliban since way back in the heyday of the `70's and 80's.

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Cat Calendar 2005

Catcalendar 2005 Calendar
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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Cat Calendar 2005.......2006-02-25

I returned this item. When I bought it I originally ordered, or thought I ordered, the 2006 Calendar, but I received a 2005 calendar. If I could get the 2006 Calendar that would be great, but was told it was unavailable. I have always loved anything by B. Kliban.
thanks,

Clara

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From the Publisher

CatCalendar 2006: 365 Days of Cats

Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764930249

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From the Publisher.......2005-11-04

"This 324-page, 313-image desk calendar (Saturdays and Sundays share a page) reveals the hopes, dreams, aspirations, frustrations, and frivolous occupations of Kliban's gluttonous but sometimes altruistic Cat gang in the bright colors Cats adore. They slink, strut, steal, and play trombones; they quietly contemplate the Tao of the ham sandwich and take to the ocean, talent scouts for up-and-coming sushi. In short: all Cat, all year, wall to wall and day to day.

"365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base. All illustrations are in full color. Size: 6 1/4 x 5 1/4" (box is 7 x 6"). ISBN 0-7649-3024-9 . . . Other calendars: weekly engagement, wall, and mini-wall. Additional items available in our Kliban Cat Gallery."--© Pomegranate

Catcalendar 366 Days of Cats 2008 Calendar

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The Cat is back again for 2008

Catcalendar 366 Days of Cats 2008 Calendar
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate (Cal)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764938665

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The Cat is back again for 2008.......2007-09-22

The Kliban Cat Calendars have been an institution for years. I'm delighted to have the desk calendar all in color and in a sturdier stand, but I miss the wall calendar with planning spaces, its large cartoons suitable for framing and endearing graphic footnotes. I hope the wall version will be available closer to Christmas.

The Cat has lost none of its charm despite the fact that Kliban has left us.

Catcalendar B. Kliban 2004 Calendar (Wall Calendar)

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Delightful art and whimsy!
Kliban at his best

Catcalendar B. Kliban 2004 Calendar (Wall Calendar)
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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Delightful art and whimsy!.......2001-01-01

A delightful assortment of Kliban's excellent, witty and whimsical art featuring cats! Essential for cat lovers and fans of light, cheerful art. Cats indulging in various human activities but with a unique cat-style approach.

Kliban at his best.......2001-01-01

we're so lucky to be able to further enjoy more of Kliban's wonderful cats...this engagement calendar is an entertaining coffee table book and inspires a few smiles every time you pick it up

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Catcalendar Cats
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0894802232

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Catcalendar Cats 9.95
B. Kliban
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 5551190315

Catcalendar Cats: The complete collection

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Catcalendar Cats: The complete collection
B Kliban
Manufacturer: Workman Pub. Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0894801694

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for any cat lover
Kliban captures the both the wisdom and mischief of cats
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mousie dung
Twenty-seven Years and Still Purring

CatCalendar: 2006
Judith Kamman Kliban
Manufacturer: Pomegranate Communications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Calendar

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ASIN: 0764930494

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Sporting a 16-page color insert of calendar art and a fresh new full-color jacket, here is the lovingly prepared 17th Anniversary Edition of the mother of all cat books, the one that gave new meaning to wacka-wacka and forever redefined it.

Cat is the classic that started it all. It gave a voice to catmaniacs around the country, launched an entire genre in publishing and licensing, and made everyone go cat crazy. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. 985,000 copies in print.

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for any cat lover.......2007-01-09

I love this book! I may buy more for friends. It arrived on time in excellent condition.

Kliban captures the both the wisdom and mischief of cats.......2006-06-16

Alas, Bernard "Hap" Kliban is gone, but his genius lives on in "Cat", a book of cartoons that captures the personality of the cat as seen by cat lovers. Strangely enough, Kliban was a cartoonist for "Playboy", contributing cartoons for that publication until his death. The cat cartoons were discovered by a "Playboy" editor and the 1975 book "Cat" was born.

Kliban's cats are rotund bug-eyed creatures with a smile on their faces that says the joke is on you. The cartoons include the cats doing nonsensical things as well as performing deeds that you always suspected they might be guilty of as they interact with dogs, mice, people, and in some cases impersonate people. Included among the cartoons is a cat playing a banjo singing a tune of his own making with the lyrics "Love to eat them mousies. Mousie's what I love to eat...". For those that can remember the days when a television was a heat emanating device that invariably attracted napping cats there is a cartoon of a couple sitting in front of a television with a transparent cat standing in front of the screen. Their comments: "We enjoy the television set now that we got ourselves a transparent cat!". Interspersed among the "Kliban cats" are truly beautiful and elegant drawings of Kliban's own real-life cats, to whom he dedicated this book.

If you enjoyed Gary Larson's "Far Side" series and you are a cat lover I'm sure you'll enjoy this book. I highly recommend it.

From the Publisher.......2005-11-05

ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR
"Get ready for a year of Cat gluttony and sloth, mayhem and misadventure, and--as always--a fine disregard for the law. (Laws governing physics and animal behavior come in for especially vigorous abuse from these feckless felines, as well as the law Thou Shalt Not Swipe Thy Neighbor's Sushi and that other law, Don't Juggle With Kittens.) ¶ Now in their third decade of worldwide popularity, the Cats show not the slightest sign of starting to behave like adults. Or like small-c cats, either. They will do whatever it takes to send you through 2006 with a smile on your face. Even if it means hugging a big, smug fish. Even if it means taking a bath. Even if it means missing a meal. Well, perhaps not that last one. ¶ 112 page, spiral-bound weekly engagement calendar with 53 reproductions, and clear plastic covers. Size: 6 5/8 by 8". Calendar features 53 weekly grids and full-page 2006 and 2007 yearly grids. Includes international holidays and a page for notes. ISBN 0-7649-3049-4 . . . Other calendars: wall, mini-wall, and 365-day. Additional publications available in our Kliban Gallery."--© Pomegranate

WALL CALENDAR
"The debauch continues. Cats have a go at Abstract Expressionism (and simultaneous inadvertent body art), feed a wild variety of birds from a park bench with nary a thought to their own nominally predatory nature, doze in the soporific vapors of a plate of pasta, and pop furtively and in sizeable numbers from the tall grass at the rustle of a sandwich being unwrapped. Other hi- and low-jinx take place as well. ¶ 13 x 12" wall calendar (opens to 13 x 24") with twelve full-color reproductions. ISBN: 0-7649-3053-2 . . . Other calendars: weekly engagement, mini-wall, and 365-day.Related items available in Kliban Cat Gallery."--© Pomegranate

mousie dung.......2003-06-14

This book is my absolute favorite, I have recently decided. My B. Kliban legacy goes back, way back, to my grandmother (we call her "Darling") who fell in love with the Qats back in the seventies (now keep in mind this is not some frumpy old lady. At the time she was the coolest little activist hippie this side of South Street.) Then there's my mother, who, out in San Fransisco around the same time used to roll with laughter at the Cat cartoons with her zany friend.
Enter me. As a kid, I never really understood Kliban--I also didn't have a cat yet. Then I did--first came Serena, then Zubi, and finally Torquil Hevoir James (AKA Booboo Kitty.) And so I loved B. Kliban. And this book is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen. Now that I'm going off to college, I think I'll frame some pages for my dorm room. And place them randomly around the campus. Most people I know who don't have cats really don't get it, but that's okay. I mean, the drawings are beautiful and whacky enough to get anyone. And the concepts--what was this guy on? Catnip, I believe. Whatever the inspiration, Cat is definitely the besties and the greaties.
P.S. I don't actually have this particular edition of the book; I didn't even know it was still in print. I have Darling's hardcover copy from 1976, and I love the cover: "Cat" in huge red letters with two of Kliban's pen-and-ink cats looking at it from below. Beautiful, beautiful.

Twenty-seven Years and Still Purring.......2001-11-23

I bought this book by accident. Well, not really, but I allowed another reviewer to seduce me into buying the new Kliban Cat Calendar and I saw this book listed as well on the calendar's detail page. I saw the words 'anniversary edition' and decided to order it. It was only after I received it that I discovered that seventeenth anniversary of "Cat" was in 1992, two years after Kliban's death. So 2002 is really the 27th anniversary. All that being said, I want to state that this little book would be fantastic no matter what it's age is, or what the age of it's reader is either. I love this book.

There, I've said it, this crusty old man goes all soft hearted when he leafs through a 25 year old book of cat cartoons. As well he should! Kliban captures something entirely different from other feline cartoonists. They aren't kitten cute, nor are they wicked Garfields, as Art Spiegelman points out in his introduction. Instead they are the light hearted chubby denizens of a world of whimsical, good natured self-interest. They relax at the beach, dream of the stars, and steal cheese sandwiched with equal aplomb. They exchange traditional concepts of cat beauty for an enticing comfyness which only a cat lover could understand.

Love is an important and operative word in this little volume. Not one of Kliban's cartoons is made at the expense of cats. Instead, each opens a door to the essential nature of our furry friends, and the non-judgmental affection that they display to those in their circle of trust. A snarl turns into a lick, a meow into a purr and then all is well. Kliban is the only artist I know who has managed to really capture the feline Mona Lisa smile. You know, the one that cats use to melt their owners. Cats forgive with a grace from which us humans could learn a great deal. And Kliban captures it all. Many of the cartoons are not really cartoons, but innocent studies of the artists own cats, drawn with genuine affection.

Art Spiegelmann, artist and author of MAUS, provides a short and delightful introduction to the anniversary edition, and there are 16 pages of Kliban's color work for our further delectation. Everyone who likes cats needs to have this book around. Placed somewhere so that it will fall to hand in those irritating moments when we need to look at cats in order to remember what it is to be human.

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