Actually, I am the author of this award-winning coffee table book, but I think that the review excerpts below substantiate that rating.
“The images (in Art, Peace, and Transcendence) delight. They swoop and spin, slink and sway, as if they were shifting on the page in the very moment of viewing.”—Albuquerque Journal
“Ré offers the reader a collection of images that simultaneously consider the scientific, religious, and mathematical forces that produce our universe, our world, and our inner life.”—Journal of the Print World
“Achieves the artist's quieting and uplifting purpose with quiet greatness and noble simplicity.”—Allan Pearson, Albuquerque Journal
“A stimulating read . . . offered in a spirit of genuine hope. Treasure this most enlightening volume, with its stunningly beautiful illustrations.”—Bill Nevins, author and peace worker
“When I looked at Paul Ré's first image of his fifty-eight, Prayer for Peace, I knew I had found a universal form of spirituality that I would use all of my life. . . . Through art, poetry, science, and philosophy, this book brings together the latest evidence for our tumultuous times of a positive, loving, peaceful, and divine view of our universe.”—Sandra Wasko-Flood, artist and educator
“Elegant rhythms from the dance of life inform all of his works . . . (that) tend to be crucibles of spiritual and intellectual discourse. His vision discovers balance and true understanding of the inherent order of the universe.”—Wesley Pulkka, Albuquerque Journal
“The singular purity of Ré's simple, highly stylized designs gives them a unique place in modern art. . . . The extraordinary sensitivity of their line and composition appeals to the senses with a haunting directness. . . . In Ré's delicate curvilinear compositions, the geometry is thoroughly absorbed and assimilated.”—Dennis Wepman, coauthor of Contemporary Graphic Artists, Volume 3
“Ré is a virtuoso of the pencil, which he uses with incredible delicacy and refinement.”—Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle
