Summary: Georges Seurat was an enigmatic character who produced, in La Grande Jatte, an equally enigmatic work of art. What is the fishing woman really fishing for? What do the monkey-revealed by X-rays to be a last-minute add-on-and the luminous little girl symbolize? What is going on with the painting's shadows and proportions? This program considers these and other mysteries as it scrutinizes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: A moment of intense erotic union? A secular icon of the sublime? A feminist tableau in which a woman coolly disengages from a man's overheated desire? A tribute to someone special? This program debates the possibilities as it places Gustav Klimt's The Kiss within the context of Klimt's sexually charged life and fin de siecle Vienna, a locus of creative energy and societal double standards....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Smith, Siân.
Summary: Brief text and photographs examine a wide range of machines used at the airport, including airplanes, staircases on wheels, scanners, conveyor belts, and radar.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Heinemann Library 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629 SMIDyckman, Ame
Summary: In three-and-a-half stories, friends and roommates Bat, Cat and Rat share, joke, and read together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1907, the intimidating women in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-also known as The Brothel-were a jarring contrast to all prior Western traditions of depicting the female nude. This program offers an in-depth analysis of an iconoclastic painting born from the rivalry between Picasso and Matisse for leadership of the avant-garde. The painting's intentional lack of narrative, rejection of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: It's the revenge of power on those that dare to challenge it. So begins this program on Goya's haunting painting of defiance and despair, The Third of May 1808. The video keenly conveys the circumstances of the Spanish uprising against the French, relates Goya's deafness to his darkening artistic vision, examines Goya's painting technique, analyzes The Third of May's symbolism, illustrates the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Controversial is probably not the first word to come to mind when viewing Whistler's Mother, and yet as a harbinger of modernity and even abstraction in art, it was. To fully tell the story of the painting Whistler called Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, this program provides a broad view of the artist and his times. Topics include Whistler's unconventional...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: When Rembrandt painted Frans Banning Cocq's militia company, he imbued it with all the drama and gravity of a major moment in history. This program deftly deconstructs The Night Watch to understand the many conventions it broke through its suggestions of movement, dramatic use of light and perspective, and its very composition; appraises its value in the hearts of the Dutch; and reveals the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: To study the Sunflowers sequence is to chart van Gogh's meteoric rise from apprentice to master-and subsequent ruin. In telling the incredible story of how these 11 paintings came to be, this program follows the doomed trajectory of the relationship between van Gogh and his would-be mentor, Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh's unprecedented use of color and texture and the method to his seemingly mad...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Meister, Cari.
Summary: "This photo-illustrated book for early readers tells about the parts of a garbage truck and different kinds of trucks used to collect trash"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Enigmatic and remote, yet very much present and perhaps all too real: that is the Little Dancer Aged 14, by Degas. Beginning with information on the artist's life, this program brings to light the genesis of Degas' immortal wax sculpture, background on the unusual model who posed for it, and the uproar the piece caused at its debut, where it stood at stark odds with the ideas of feminine beauty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Loved by the public and spurned by its creator, Rodin's The Kiss remains controversial to this day. While telling the remarkably intricate story of how the sculpture came to be, this program illustrates the impact of Michelangelo's and Ghiberti's works on Rodin's artistic sensibilities, comments on Rodin's relationships, sketches out the character of the times, sheds light on The Kiss's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Is Botticelli's La Primavera an artistic allegory? A pageant of sexual permissiveness? An emblem of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism? This program offers multiple interpretations of one of the most hotly debated works in the history of Western art as it tracks La Primavera from its creation, to its decline into obscurity, to its sensational reemergence as an icon of the Pre-Raphaelites, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program brings 1870s Montmartre and the Moulin de la Galette to life through Renoir's romanticized vision and history's less generous account. Beginning with Renoir's life on the Rue Cortot, the video contrasts the artist's idealism with the realities of poverty and left-wing radicalism that pervaded the locale. In addition, it sheds light on the painting's composition; the art...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Hokusai's The Great Wave is arguably the best-known image of Japanese art in the Western world today, and yet prints of it were sold in the 19th century for only the price of a large bowl of noodles. This program tells the story of an iconic image, its visionary maker, and the times in which he lived. It also decodes the multiple meanings of The Great Wave, explains the mechanics of woodblock...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Alinas, Marv
Summary: Introduces garbage trucks, describing what they do and their various parts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Lights! Camera! Woof! Human actors are some of the most admired people in show biz. But animal actors? They're definitely the cat's meow. In this star-studded book, readers will learn about some of the most famous animals to walk the red carpet. They'll get a peek at the training process and what a typical day is like on the set. They'll also learn about where animal actors go when they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 791.43 BURGeorge, Charles
Summary: Describes the selection, training, accomplishments, and history of police dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RiverFront Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.7 GEOMorey, Allan
Summary: "This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the parts of race cars that help it go fast and win races"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bullfrog Books 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 MORSummary: A 10-year high school reunion provides an chance to investigate opportunity cost, supply and demand's effect on wages, investing in human capital, and the costs and benefits of career decisions. In another segment, two workers, thinking hard about their futures, learn about incentives for investing in human capital and the economic risks involved, why people change jobs, and factors that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Glaser, Rebecca Stromstad.
Summary: "This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the parts of a dump truck, different types of dump trucks, and the jobs they do. Includes photo glossary and matching game"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jump! 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 GLAGeorge, Charles
Summary: Describes the selection, training, accomplishments, and history of guide dogs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RiverFront Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.7 GEOGeorge, Charles
Summary: Describes the history, selection, training, and accomplishments of different dogs used in search and rescue operations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RiverFront Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 636.7 GEORogers, Hal
Summary: How do cherry pickers work? Where are the controls? Why don't they fall over? Learn all about these cool machines in this fascinating book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014