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Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"In the pages of this book, created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, meet French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Join her on her journey and learn what led her to create her fabric works, installations, paintings, and sculptures. Discover the people and places that influenced her and the objects that sparked her ideas. Then see what you can see and create your own works of art!"--
4) 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
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how a farmboy became America's foremost sculptor. After failing at academics, Dan was working the family farm when he idly carved a turnip into a frog and discovered what he was meant to do. Sweeney's swift prose and Fields's evocative illustrations capture the single-minded determination with which Dan taught himself to sculpt and launched his career with the famous Minuteman Statue in his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby stunningly captures the life of Louise Bourgeois and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all.
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