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461) Woman Walks Ahead
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow (Jessica Chastain) as she journeys west to meet Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer (Sam Rockwell) intent on war with Native Americans. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**. "*Jessica Chastain and Michael Greyeyes bring smarts and chemistry to this worthy Western.*" - Tomris Laffly, ***Time...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style paintings rocked to fame in the 1980s as a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing energy of New York City. Now, award-winning illustrator Javaka Steptoe's vivid text and bold artwork echoing Basquiat's own introduce young readers...
464) Titian: his life
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xxiii, 832 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm
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English
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1 audio-enabled book (29 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
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English
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En este libro ilustrado para niños con el arte de Diego Rivera, la hija de Rivera y Guadalupe Marín nos cuenta algo de su niñez y del arte de su padre.
In this book for children, illustrated with paintings by Diego Rivera, the daughter of Rivera and Guadalupe Marín tells us about her childhood and about her father's art.
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3 videodiscs (approximately 463 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Focusing on eight iconic works of art, this series reveals the history of visual imagination through the ages. A combination of reconstruction, photography and storytelling transport the viewer back to the intense moments when great works were conceived and born: the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; opulent, parvenu Amsterdam; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; Victorian England suffocating beneath riches and righteousness; the madhouses and...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Sonia Delaunay, painter and textile, theater, and fashion designer, made enormous contributions to the development of abstraction in the early 1910s, partly because of her son, Charles. In this new book, Delaunay and six-year-old Charles have a fantastical adventure in a world of color and form, a magical road trip in their car, modeled after her 1925 design for a Citroen convertible. They glide into a landscape of colors and shapes drawn from Delaunay's...
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xi, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"Agnes Martin's (1912-2004) celebrated grid paintings are widely acknowledged as a touchstone of postwar American art and have influenced many contemporary artists. Martin's formative years, however, have been largely overlooked. In this revelatory study of Martin's early artistic production, Christina Bryan Rosenberger demonstrates that the rapidly evolving creative processes and pictorial solutions Martin developed between 1940 and 1967 define all...
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125 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Richard Meryman began an enduring friendship with Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) while on the job as a Life magazine editor in 1964. For Meryman, this unique friendship yielded more than four decades of recorded conversations with Wyeth, his family, friends and neighbors in Wyeth's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. Meryman notes that, whether during formal interviews, shared meals, car rides or long walks, "Wyeth applied to himself the same sensitive understandings...
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208 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits ; 28 cm
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English
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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international appeal. Her instantly recognizable work draws extensively on her life and her extraordinarily personal reflections upon it. On Kahlo's death, her husband, Diego Rivera (1886-1957), ordered that her most private possessions be locked away until 15 years after his death. The bathroom in which her belongings were stored in fact remained unopened until 2004. Through this incredible...
474) Noticing
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, 28 cm
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"This is a story about noticing the little things, the grand big things, the imaginary, and sometimes, hidden things. It is about embracing what's possible. And that the incredible is everywhere, and in everything--waiting to be known, discovered, recognized." --
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"Featuring beautiful full-color images of Dutch paintings throughout, this stunning book about one of the most vibrant periods in European art and life is centered around the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap - an enormous explosion in 1654 Holland that claimed the life of one of the greatest artists of the 17th century."
In 1654, an enormous explosion at a gunpowder store devastated the city of Delft, killing hundreds of people...
477) Color and beyond
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xiii, 161 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Color and Beyond is a how-to-paint book, based on a forty-year career as an acclaimed artist and teacher. However, it is also a "step beyond," going deeper into the art of color than is possible in the author's workshop lectures, organizing her approach to painting an orderly set of concepts and techniques. --
478) Audubon
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1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
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1 videodisc (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Examines the life and work of Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, emphasizing Cezanne's use of color and discussing his personal mission to give artistic expression to nature.
480) Warhol
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xi, 961 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his -- or any -- age To this day, mention the name "Andy Warhol" to almost anyone and you'll hear about his famous images of soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. But though Pop Art became synonymous with Warhol's name and dominated the public's image of him, his life and work are infinitely more complex and multi-faceted than that. In Warhol, esteemed...
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