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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Splat! traces art history through its key turning points and helps to map important art movements from the Renaissance and Impressionism to Surrealism and contemporary art. At the beginning, a spread explores how early peoples represented animals and everyday life. Then brief sections explore the stories of particular artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and the High Renaissance; Bruegel and his paintings...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Color Purple--as well as the acclaimed 1985 film from Steven Spielberg, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, and the all-new film adaptation with this gorgeously designed exploration of the novel's enduring legacy, featuring contributions from Alice Walker, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Colman Domingo, Fantasia Barrino, Danny Glover, and more. Since its publication in 1982,...
Author
Publisher
Big Picture Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Art is everywhere. It's in our galleries, on our streets and even in our homes. Under the playful guidance of Keith, a world-renowned art historian (who also happens to be an ostrich), this book encourages young readers to use the basic tools of visual analysis when studying art, giving them the eyes to see art outside of the restrictions of a gallery. This book aims to show that art isn't always about classical paintings and knowing the right answers....
84) Timelines of art
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Timelines of Art provides detailed analysis of the works of key artists, showing details of their technique - such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and it traces how certain artists, genres or movements informed the works of others - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, or how...
85) Families
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. 0Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's...
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Ray Bradbury-peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors-is a literary giant whose remarkable career has spanned seven decades. Now twenty-six of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists."--P. [4] of cover.
90) The museum
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Geoff Dyer's hilarious tribute to a film he has loved since childhood, A thrilling Alpine adventure starring a magnificent, bleary-eyed Richard Burton and a dynamically lethargic Clint Eastwood, the apex of 1960s war movies, by turns enjoyable and preposterous.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of original reflections on Henry David Thoreau's life and work"--
"From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden, features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Kristen Case, George Howe Colt, Gerald Early, Paul Elie, Will Eno, Adam Gopnik, Lauren Groff, Celeste Headlee, Pico Iyer, Alan Lightman, James Marcus, Megan Marshall, Michelle Nijhuis, Zoë Pollak, Jordan Salama, Tatiana Schlossberg,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art, the eminent curator, taking us from ancient Babylon to contemporary Pyongyang, explains art's power to illuminate our lives and reveals how great art resonates powerfully by transcending the boundaries of time.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters and the cousin they grew up with after a tragedy are summoned home to their family matriarch's inn on the coast of Maine for a shocking announcement. Suddenly, Isabel, June, and Kat are sharing the attic bedroom-and barely speaking. But when innkeeper Lolly asks them to join her and the guests in the parlor for weekly Movie Night-it's Meryl Streep month-they find themselves sharing secrets, talking long into the night-and questioning...
98) Izzy paints
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After Izzy visits an art museum in the big city, he becomes inspired to make his own art.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries-from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others- 'How to See' explores not only the multilayered...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Over many years as a working poet, Michael Rosen has thought a great deal about what poems are, what they can do and the pleasure that comes from writing and reading poetry. In this invaluable handbook, he shares this knowledge and experience in book form for the very first time. Starting with a detailed analysis of a number of classic poems, he offers a real writer's guide to writing and performing poems, as well as a wealth of technical information...
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