Bøker av Carl Scott Harker

For Cat Lovers Everywhere: A new book of cat poems with cat art has arrived, written by the author of "Poems by my Cat." This book contains a collection of 24 poster poems featuring fine art illustrations of cats. Each poster, first designed to be printed individually with their own specific look, combines a piece of cat art with an original poem inspired by each cat or cats presented. "This was a work of love - how could it not be? I had been blessed with a project to write about cats! The poems delve into the character of cats and tell stories revolving around cats, while still touching upon the human condition. And in some poems, a cat seems to speak directly from the art itself. "It is hoped cat lovers will be delighted with my poetry, but I know they will be charmed with the art. Here you will find the whimsical, anthropomorphic cat art of Louis Wain as well as more realistic portrayals of our feline friends. "So come and meet these cats and discover what fanciful feline dreams they stirred to life." - Carl Scott Harker The artists included in this book of feline poems are: Louis Wain, Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, Cecil Aldin, Sir John Tenniel, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Emile Munier, Abraham Teniers, Bruno Liljefors, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Henri Rousseau, Katsushika Hokusai and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

When you live in material poverty, but are awash in spiritual wealth... that is what the poems in this book are about. Have you ever been poor? Perhaps, you were poor when young or are now old and poor or were poor sometime inbetween. These poems are for you. Your struggles, like my own, are pretty much everyone's. And if you have never been poor? Then you should read these poems, too. It will round off your education. The poetry in this book is based on my personal life, my observations of others and of observations of the world at large. I think it is important to understand how we see ourselves, more so, than how we are reflected in others' eyes. This subject of personal poverty amongst spiritual wealth is explored through serious poems and light poems. Note that most poems have a touch of optimism - as that is whom I am. I am more concerned with the inner person - that I am and that you are. These poems are my way of talking with you.

Over the last few years, I, the author of this work, have published several books of poetry written for a general audience. In reviewing those previous books, I realized many of my poems are ones I would have enjoyed finding when I was ten or so. "The Hedgehog" is a collection of those poems just right for reading by a younger audience - children ten years and older. This book contains silly poems such as "What Does A Spider Mean Within My Dream?" and "The Cat and the Day of the Special Fog" and more serious poems like "The Little Girl with Dyslexia" and "White Snow Like Fur Covers a Tree in Yosemite." Some might think that reading poetry is too challenging. But good poems provide clues to their meaning and incentives to read one line and then the next and then the next... And when you have reached the last line they provide a reward - which may be laughter, or wisdom, or a story, or a better understanding of yourself, and sometimes all of the above. The poems in this book are good poems - and I think children will have fun reading them!

Here is a gallery of fifty beautiful works of art that celebrates the naked human form (forty-nine female nudes and one specific male nude), ready for your enjoyment.This is my second collection of classic fine art nudes which show both the beauty of the human body and the talent and creativity of great artists of our past.Some of the names of the painters presented in this book will be familiar to you. But you are sure to be delighted, as well, by the work of those artists whose names are new to you.Throughout human history, artists have used naked figures of women and men to reflect the times they live in as well as to showcase their own personal style of painting. These artisans take something so well known and so well loved as a nude woman or man and use the inherent beauty of the subject to stretch the concept of art.The artists included in this book are: Albert Joseph Pénot, Edgar Degas, William Merritt Chase, George Barbier, Luis Ricardo Falero, Peter Paul Rubens, Edvard Munch, Kenyon Cox, Gaston Brussiere, Gustav Klimt, Ito Shinsui, Capelari Fritz, Richard Gersti, John Webber, Cornelis Van Haarlem, Giorgio De Chirico. Thomas Rowlandson, Henri Rousseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Ishikawa, John Collier, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Warwick Goible, Jean-Léon Gérôme, William Adolphe Bouguereau, Delphin Enjolras, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Qui Ying, Paul Ranson, Albrecht Durer, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Vladimir Baranov Rossine, Théo Van Rysselberghe, Tsugouharu Foujita, Childe Hassam, Egon Schiele, Hans Zatzka, Mariano Fortuny, Nakamura Tsune, Hans Hassenteufel, Hendrick Goltzius, CW Eckersberg, August Macke and Paul Gauguin.

A Lifetime Lease On obtaining the vampiric seal Precious blood you will learn how to steal, So give it a try You just have to die, To make immortality real!In this updated, second edition, you will find an expanded collection of cartoons and limericks. Here are vampire limericks - like the teaser presented above, naughty limericks, Star Trek cartoons and other cartoons and limericks, interspersed with personal tidbits and humorous commentary. According to the author: The genesis of this book was simple. I was looking for vampire limericks to do a Halloween reading at a library and couldn't find any. So I wrote a few 5-line poems about the undead to fill the void, so others would not have to face a similar problem.This was not enough material to fill a book, though. So I have added in other limericks written and published over the years, as well as some cartoons and a short story. This is me at my silliest. For readers and fans of my more serious poetry, I am happy to present a lighter side of my work!

Here is the author's fifth volume of classic fine art nudes which continues the tradition of being a mixture of different styles from different time periods in celebration of the nude form. This pictorial is like walking into an art museum, entering a gallery, and gazing at the paintings to discover artwork by some of the greatest artists who have every lived. Each painting presented in this book represents the societies and times in which they were painted. Yet they all transcend the parameters of the moment to become true works of art. The beauty and the fascination of the nude is explored in both classical and new ways. Some of the artists in this book will be familiar to you and some may not be familiar you. Rest assured, though, each work of art is worthy of your attention. Here are fifty great nudes - enjoy! (Don't forget to check out the other four volumes in my series of books of Classical Fine Art Nudes.) The artists included in this pictorial book are: Georges le Onnec, Gustave Courbet, Gustav Klimt, Raimundo de Madrazo Garreta, Ishikawa Seishun, Paul Gustav Fischer, Edouard Dantan, Gaston Bussiere, Jan Massys, Blas Olleros y Quintana, Egon-Schiele, After Bloemaert Abraham, Louis Icart, Charles Chaplin, François-Gérard, Felix Vallotton, William Etty, Paul Gauguin, George Barbier, Edvard Munch, Carl Larsson, Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz, Joseph Stella, Vojtech Hynais Poloakt, Henri Edmond Cross, Gustave Dore, Elihu Vedder, Boris Kustodiev, William Merritt Chase, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Debat Ponsan, William Sergeant Kendall, Peter Paul Rubens, Adolf Ziegler, Frederick Frieseke, Clemens von Pausinger, Kenyon Cox, Jean Bourdichon, Henri Matisse, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, David Shterenberg, Aba Novák, Kuroda Seiki, Lovis Corinth, Elihu Vedder, Carl Larsson, Childe Hassam and Vlaho Bukovac.

This book provides an overview of the traditional weapons used by the Samurai of Japan - on the battlefield and in their role as bodyguards.Throughout the hundreds of years of history that the Samurai class was active in Japan, the Samurai became synonymous with the ideal of the honorable warrior. It is the closeness by which the individual Samurai came to such an ideal, that their appeal to the imagination still lives today.We are fascinated with Samurai as well as their cousins, the Ninjas, and the Knights of old. So it is not surprising that the legends of the Samurai have had strong effect on our popular culture.The book also takes note of other icons of Japanese cultural. Through articles, images and poetry, the story is told.Carl Scott Harker is the author of twelve books of poetry, books on the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent Van Gogh and other works.

The image of the female nude has been captured in many different mediums - through paintings and illustrations and since 1850 in photographs.This book, "Vintage Nudes of Yesteryear" features sixty-five black and white photos of nude women produced generally between the years 1900 and 1923. The beginning of the 1900's was a time when social taboos began to disappear and nude photography began appearing in magazines, on postcards and in art instruction books. And of course, professional photographers also sold their works directly to the general public.There are a variety of beautiful images, in this book, featuring some of the best of the vintage photographic work of yesteryear.