Pictures and Words invites young children to open their eyes and discover the incredible images that surround them. Beginning readers will find the combination of simple text and beautiful full-color photographs a helpful format to make the transition from being read to, to reading on their own. Each volume contains numerous spreads presenting a single large image illustrating a subject or idea…
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) was interested in the telling of truth. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellingings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of …