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168 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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What is a print? This volume aims to answer that question by exploring the four basic printmaking techniques--woodcut, intaglio, lithography and screenprint--that have been used to create some of the most iconic images in modern art, from Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Illustrated with works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative collection of prints, the book is divided into four sections that provide an overview introduction...
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271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
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English
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"At the heart of this book lies the work of the great American photographer Walker Evans, who radically expanded the possibilities of photography as an art. Photographers before Evans had certainly conceived of their pictures as art, but in order to make that claim they had most often aimed at a cultivated visual style that would advertise its differences from the vast mass of reportorial and vernacular photography. Evan's work of the late 1920s and...
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1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The MoMA in New York is the first choice for aficionados of modern and contemporary art. Art collectors Abby Rockefeller, Lillie Bliss and Mary Sullivan laid the foundations for the museum, which opened its doors under the directorship of Alfred Barr on Nov. 7, 1929. Presented here is the MoMA's astonishing range of modern art, including key works such as Jasper John's 'Flag'. Features the work of Boccioni, Miró, Johns, Lindner and Wyeth.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces a new fashion exhibition with a gala event every year on the first Monday of May. A grand fashion and cultural exhibit fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute, the event is attended by A-list celebrities. The film gives a behind-the-scenes look at the the exhibition "China: Behind the Look Glass," conceived and organized by Met curator Andrew Bolton in 2015, and the Met Gala marking the exhibition's...
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