As opposed to the common negative view of Appalachia, this book is an inspiring and deeply American story of enterprise and self-reliance in often desperate circumstances, and of the importance of community and faith, an oral history told by farmer and cabinet maker, Roy Anderson, age 80. The book was created by Diane Asséo Griliches, photographer and friend of Roy and his sister, Patsey, and her photographs beautifully enhance the text.

The book of "Churches" presents Don Smith’s paintings and Roy Ward’s photographs of community churches in Northeast Georgia, giving the book of historical, social, and artistic significance.

Since the eighth and ninth centuries, the visual arts have been the subject of much ecclesiastical discussion and contention. In particular, since the mid-1960s Protestant scholars and clergy have been paying more attention to the potential role of the visual arts in theology and liturgy of the Christian Church. As a result, numerous programs were begun under a variety of nomenclature, e.g., Religion and the Arts, Theology and the Arts, etc. These essays are a rich fare in interdisciplinary exploration of Christian art by art historians, theologians, and biblical scholars.

Southernmost Art and Literary Portraits features eighty-five engaging black-and-white studies, many of which are being made public here for the first time. This collection is the first gallery of portraits to be paired with revealing quotes from the subjects themselves, along with biographical profiles. Thought provoking and often surprising, this work includes fourteen influential artists, twelve Pulitzer Prize winners, a Nobel Prize Laureate, seven recipients of the National Book Award, and eight of the world’s best-selling authors.

The Biblical Rembrandt presents Rembrandt in the context of his faith. That faith can be studied only by an intense look at his paintings, etchings, and drawings depicting biblical persons, scenes, and moments. About Rembrandt’s life, we know very little that is certain, but he has left us abundant testimony of his sensitive reading of the Bible.

The Courthouse and Depot in Georgia, 1833-1910 is a narrative catalog of Georgia’s nineteenth-century public architecture and a complete history of the hundreds of rural railroad lines that covered the state in this period.

The Life and Art of Athos Menaboni is a straightforward biography of the artist and his sixty-year career. Menaboni is widely regarded as one of the world’s finest illustrators and painters of bird life, and hailed by wildlife lovers, art collectors, and ornithologists alike as the twentieth-century Audobon, but unlike Audubon, he worked mostly from live bird studies.

In Thinking Photography, Diane Asséo Griliches draws upon her knowledge as an experienced photographer to give readers an opportunity to learn—and enjoy—what can be accomplished with a camera.  In an age when everyone uses a camera, the book offers a thoughtful approach to using it well.

Before there was Atlanta’s High Museum of Art there was Villa Clare-J.J. Haverty’s Mediterranean style home on Peachtree Street. In telling the previously unpublished story of J.J. Haverty and his art collection, Villa Clare provides a unique new perspective on the story of early Atlanta and the collection that is the foundation of the High Museuem of Art.