Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Updike, John.
Summary: Eighteen essays of art criticism cover early American portraiture and landscape painting, late-nineteenth-century masters Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and the work of such artists as James McNeill Whistler and Alfred Stieglitz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 UpdikeWeidemann, Christiane.
Summary: A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEIMancoff, Debra N.
Contents: Colonial limners -- John Singleton Copley -- Charles Willson Peale -- George Catlin -- Thomas Cole -- Eastman Johnson -- George Inness -- Frederic Edwin Church -- James McNeill Whistler -- Winslow Homer -- Thomas Eakins -- Mary Cassatt -- John F. Peto -- John Singer Sargent -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- John Sloan -- Marsden Hartley -- Edward Hopper -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Thomas Hart Benton --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 MANSummary: A sumptuous, visual guided tour of 66 of the world's greatest paintings, each examined in unrivaled depth. Ranging from works by Zhang Zeduan, a 12th-century Chinese master, to modern masterpieces by Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, this book provides an excellent visual introduction to the history of art in chronological order. Alongside a magnificent gallery of iconic paintings with more than 700...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2018