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2) The snail
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. But the world was not so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States and raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country. Unable to identify fully as either Japanese or American, he turned to his art to shape, hold, and create...
Author
Publisher
Lyon Org
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Norma Duffield (nee Strong) Lyon became known as 'the Butter Cow Lady' after years of sculpting the Iowa State Fair's Butter Cow. Initially done in the name of dairy promotion, Duffy's sculptures gained a large following. Each year she would choose a topic or current identity that would resonate with the wider community and drew thousands of patrons through the turnstiles of the State Fair. Her appeal broadened over time, expanding to butter sculptures...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The first original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundbreakers who changed our world for the better. "Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am." Meet Edmonia Lewis, the woman who changed America during the Civil War by becoming the first sculptor of African-American and Native American...
Author
Publisher
Getty Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic biography chronicles the genesis of Ruth Asawa as an artist--from the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would further develop and refine her groundbreaking wire sculptures"--
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