As an admirer of Chardin I was realy glad to buy this book. Actually this is not a book, this is a treasure. It is an exhaustive work on Master Chardin not only on his still lifes but his work as a whole. The quality of the presentation in one of the best I have ever seen in art books!

Highly recommended

This limited edition book contains the best of Folon's watercolors, along with some descriptive text. For those of us who appreciate surreal art in the style of Magritte, this book is for us.

I haven't actually got around to buying this book for myself but I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy from a Basquiat-mad friend. It is an amazing book. The presentation and content make it a must, albeit an expensive must, for any serious Basquiat devotee! It contains a lot of images that I haven't seen before in books or galleries. I have a couple of other Basquiat Monographs but this is definitely better than the rest. Needless to say it is on my wish list....

As a big fan of Basqiat, I am always glad to find new books on his work and insight to his life. This book offers both. Each year has its own chapter with corresponding work with interviews mixed in to give insight to artist life. His noise band Gray, Mary Boone, Annina Nosei, Paige Powell and others give comments and insights to his life and work. Some pretty cool grab shots of Jean-Michel mixed in with tons of quality color reproductions make this book a treasure trove of images. All in all a great book and a must have if you consider yourself a Basquiat fan!

Jean-Michel Rabate's Lacan In America explicitly address the issues that arose from a meticulous consideration of Lacan psychoanalytic concepts. The contributor essays include: The Place of Lacanian Psychoanalysis in North American Psychology (Kareen Ror Malone); Lacan in America (Joseph H. Smith); What Is Wrong with French Psychoanalysis? Observations on Lacan's First Seminar (Paul Roazen); Please Read Lacan! (C. Edward Robins); New Resistance to Psychoanalysis (Gerard Pommier); Psychoanalysis: Resistible and Irresistible (Patricia Gherovici); Lacanian Reception (Catherine Liu); October's Lacan, or In the Beginning Was the Void (Steven Z. Levine); Lacan's New Gospel (Michael Tort); Construction, Interpretation, and Deconstruction in Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Nestor A. Braunstein); "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose" (Erich D. Freiberger); On Lacan and Mathematics (Arkady Plornitsky); The Body as Viewing Instrument, or the Strut of Vision (Joan Copjec); The Experience of the Outside (Christopher Lane); The Subject of Homosexuality (Frances L. Restuccia); The Philanthropy of Perversion (Judith Feher Gurewich); On Female Homosexuality: A Lacanian Perspective (Marcianne Blevis). Also highly recommended is Alain Vanier's Lacan (1-892746-50-6, ...).

Michael Blueberry is never at a loss for the right plan and action - whether he's in the middle of a vast buffalo stampede or dealing with a lynch mob or navigating a train with angry braves behind and a burning bridge ahead. This is the western United States in the 1860's as seen through the brillant artwork of Jean "Moebius" Giraud and as told by fellow Frenchman Jean-Michel Charlier. The saga consists of many volumes, but each stands on it's own, and any one is well worth acquiring. If you like slightly melodramatic action and a plot that constantly moves forward, complemented by great artwork, you'll like Blueberry.

An amazing collection of some of the most exceptional images taken of our oceans. Every guest seeing it on the coffee table has commented positively on it...great conversation catalyst since everyone has a favorite image/memory of the oceans in their lives.

This is a wonderful book! I have been carrying around
with me for weeks, reading it and rereading it. Leiris'
book consists of diary-like notations, rather than
carefully organized essays. This fact does not detract
from its value. On the contrary, Leiris' style provokes
the reader to further reflections on the topic at hand.
It encourages you to elaborate upon his seminal ideas.
Since the author's remarks frequently place specific operas and particular performances in the context of cultural and
social history, of aesthetics and other disciplines, this
book would be of great interest to anyone interested in the
arts. I teach literature, not music or theater, and I
am finding it immensely useful as well as enjoyable.
Anyone interested in the mythic aspects of opera and
narrative art in general owe it to themselves to take a
serious look at this book. Leiris is the best kind of critic: an enthusiast who is insightful and not at all doctrinaire.

I am an NLP Master Practitioner trained to the highest standards of NLP (as there are some quick and dirty NLP courses around). The science of NLP is to understand the way we think based on modelling other people. This is a method for replicating talent.

NLP, Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychology are often used in conjunction, hence my interest in this work.

Having read many books in order to enhance my business skills, I must say that this is one of the best works I have read.

Jean-Michel has described something so simple, and yet so evasive to even the best of studies of human sciences. I find it surprising that nobody else has made a review of this outstanding work.

His theory is quite simple. That people mimic each other. His explanations are direct, simple to understand and the book is captivating from cover to cover. It is literally full of "aha" experiences from page to page.

For example, he describes the difference between suggestions and commands. Now that is something I have wanted to know for all of my career. I have written in my sales training manuals my own (what I think is obvious) theories such as "people mirror each other" and that it's a question of "who is mirroring who" and to "take the lead" in mirroring.

Jean-Michel describes the difference between suggestion and command by saying that once a suggestion is carried out, the initial instruction is 'as if it's' forgotten. I won't labour this point, because Jean-Michel has a far better explanation of this.

Jean-Michel concerns the reader by demonstrating that perhaps we aren't free willed, but very much subject to the desires of those that we have rapport with. This includes mass suggestion and mass hysteria, including war.

Jean-Michel describes the more traditional methods of hypnosis, but apparently unknowingly does an eloquent job of explaining the suggestive method of hypnosis popularised by Milton Erickson. He discusses how hypnosis consists of an interdividual relationship using rapport where the self's desire is copied from the others. The hypnotist establishes rapport by copying the hypnotised in this dance of rapport. I.e. influence is a two-way street.

He claims that in hypnosis there are three metaphorical parties involved. The "other self" within the person being hypnotised, the "other self" as the hypnotist and the "original" self that is temporarily put aside. The mimetic nature of the hypnotised integrates interpersonally with the hypnotist. This pattern of copying others is useful for explaining many phenomenon that are otherwise left to the "copied" explanations of priests, psychologists and practitioners of all kinds of phenomenon that society swallows largely unquestioned in the form of paradigm.

He describes the phenomena of post-hypnotic suggestion in reference to psychological time, which he says is the only time that exists for a person anyway. This is a useful metaphor. In this way he also describes suggestion. He links the amnesia with hypnosis with the amnesia of carrying out a suggestion.

He describes desire as something that is copied from other people. Such desire is even demonstrated when one copies a phantom "other" in the case of spirit possession or hysteria and even catatonia. I.e. Hysteria must be demon possession, so the hysteric blasphemes god. This desire is in the form of suggestion. I.e. the hysteric has been led to believe that society believes a good church going person wouldn't behave as such, it must be the devil possessing them. This suggestive ability is further detailed in the section on witchcraft.

Jean Michel discusses the original views of hysteria from Socrates to Freud. He discusses how Jean-Marin Charcot thought that hysteria was a conflict of opposing beliefs in the conscious mind. He then discusses how the demon theory of hysteria was surpassed by Freud's popularisation of the subconscious theory, thereby repressing the theory of hysteria once again to the unknown. He attempts to demystify the subconscious as more conscious than many psychologists care to admit. He discusses the myth that habit is potentially fearful. He demonstrates that rather than having the subconscious as the "other self" inside us, that the "other self" is largely society and/or those that influence us.

In a sense you could say that my opinions in this review are copied opinions of Jean-Michel.

I hope this gives you an idea of what you can look forward to reading in this brilliant book. If you would like to know more about influencing others, then this is the book for you. Another book I can recommend on understanding the unconscious mind is "The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind". Another classic that gathers dust. I would also recommend books by Milton Erickson. If you are in sales you can't go better than Tom Hopkins classic "How to master the art of selling". I would suggest reading books on NLP, but I have found that NLP is truly an art that requires patience and a lot of training and practice to be practical to those of us who aren't therapists.

...met Robert on a plane to Milano. This is one most versatile, interesting and informed person . His honesty on all sorts of topics was totally disengaging. Have not got his book yet but I can tell you, I could become very interested in CATS.