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5) Breakfast with Lucian: the astounding life and outrageous times of Britain's great modern painter
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English
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"A memoir about the author's relationship with renowned painter Lucian Freud that includes interviews with many close friends and family members as well as critical analyses of Freud's art"--
7) Hockney
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A portrait of David Hockney, legendary artist and an early icon for LGBTQ and AIDS activism.
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xii, 508 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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The extraordinary life of J.M.W. Turner, one of Britain's most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists. Turner is Britain's most famous landscape painter. Yet beyond his artistic achievements, little is known of the man himself and the events of his life: the tragic committal of his mother to a lunatic asylum, the personal sacrifices he made to effect his stratospheric rise, and the bizarre double life he chose to lead in the last years of his...
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302 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
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English
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"The sublime collection of 418 superbly detailed paintings of hummingbirds by the great artist John Gould, the 19th-century naturalist painter often referred to as the British Audubon, represents all the known species on the planet at the time and is the most complete ever produced. Like Audubon, Gould depicted the birds as they are in life, in their native habitats, which was still a revolutionary approach at the time. Yet Unlike Audubon, Gould travelled...
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