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302 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"La ciudad es un campo de batalla. Un artista callejero lanza desafíos como si fueran bombas. El único arte posible es un ajuste de cuentas. Un encargo editorial pone a Alejandra Varela, especialista en arte urbano, tras la pista de Sniper, un reconocido artista del grafiti, promotor de acciones callejeras al límite de la legalidad algunas de ellas con resultados fatales de que casi nadie ha visto jamás el rostro ni conoce el paradero. La búsqueda...
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1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial...
6) House of D
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
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2 videodiscs (approximately 7 1/2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Meet diverse contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration and creative processes.
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219 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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Lame and suddenly orphaned, Nora is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Consejo de Guardianes.
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1 videodisc (approximately 220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Meet contemporary artists at work and speaking in their own words--direct, accessible, and unfiltered--in Season Four of the Emmy-nominated ART:21--ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY documentary series. ... This unique four-hour series spotlights 17 artists working in the United States today, and invites viewers behind the scenes to see artists at work in their homes, communities, and unexpected sites--from an old-growth forest to a military base to...
12) Pablo Picasso
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48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Tells the story of Pablo Picasso as he grows through his early days as an artist, his discovery of cubism, and his later years of sculpture and painting to become a famous artist.
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color w/black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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A vibrant celebration of artists and musicians in Havana, Cuba's capital. Musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, and filmmakers reveal and reflect on Cuba's precarious political climate, its African heritage, the ironies of tourism, and how to live with dignity in the face of the United States embargo.
15) Georgia O'Keeffe
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. As their relationship suffers, Alfred takes a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings, and ultimately her own voice, in the New Mexico landscape.
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1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
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The fascinating Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, her dramatic works featuring bold and vibrant colors. Her work brought attention to Mexican and indigenous culture and she is also renowned for her works celebrating the female form. Brown's story recounts Frida's beloved pets -- two monkeys, a parrot, three dogs, two turkeys, an eagle, a black cat, and a fawn -- and playfully considers how Frida embodied many wonderful...
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Three Pines mystery volume 7
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446 pages ; 22 cm.
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Clara Morrow lleva muchos años trabajando en el más absoluto anonimato como pintora aficionada en Three Pines, un tranquilo pueblecito de las afueras de Montreal. Así que, cuando el Musée d'Art Contemporain de la capital decide acoger una exposición sobre su obra, Clara no da crédito a la noticia. La sensación de irrealidad y los nervios que la atenazan la noche del vernissage se prolongan en la cena que ofrece en su casa para amigos y miembros...
18) Vincent van Gogh
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46 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
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Español
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Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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The author describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.
Overview: This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book, Grandma's Records, is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional...
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