Summary: In its strictest sense, the term art brut refers to art created outside the boundaries of official culture and often focuses on the work of people who live in mental institutions. This program focuses on the art of Josef "Pepi" Hofer and several other artists with mental retardation and similar disabilities as it captures them in workshops and at a showing and award ceremony at The House of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Three Days Grace (Musical group)
Contents: Right left wrong -- The mountain -- I am an outsider -- Infra-red -- Nothing to lose but you -- Me against you -- Love me or leave me -- Strange days -- Villain I'm not -- Chasing the first time -- The new real -- The abyss.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK THRBlack Thought
Summary: Through vivid vignettes, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning co-founder of The Roots tells dramatic stories of the four powerful relationships that shaped him, each a complex weave of love, discovery, trauma and loss, illuminating the redemptive power of the upcycle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BLACK THOUGHT BLASummary: Presents a guide to resources for artists and graphic designers, covering such topics as galleries, copyright, book publishers, contracts, art fairs, contests, grants, residencies, and art organizations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 ARTFiorani, Francesca
Summary: A new biography of the artist behind the Mona Lisa distinguishes between his life as an artist and as an inventor and discusses how he used his understanding of optical science to perfect his painting techniques.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.5 FIOFragile Self
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC FRAJackson, Jenn M.
Summary: "Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 305.48 JACStormen, Win.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: OVS 786.3 STOVanwyck, Wayne
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Self-Counsel Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.85 VANFarmer, Art.
Contents: Mox nix -- Fair weather -- Darn that dream -- The touch of your lips -- Jubilation -- Like someone in love -- I love you -- Cold breeze.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARHodes, Art
Contents: Winin' boy blues (3:44) -- Old fashioned love (3:50) -- Blues yesterday (3:50) -- Ballin' the jack (3:12) -- Struttin' with some barbecue (2:53) -- When my sugar walks down the street (3:22) -- It's the blues (2:05) -- Winin' boy blues (alt) (4:07) -- Indiana (3:24) -- Steady roll (3:25) -- Just a closer walk with thee (2:47) -- If I could be with you just one hour tonight (2:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HODTatum, Art
Summary: Documents the career of jazz pianist Art Tatum through interviews, rare footage, and photographs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MVD Visual 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ARTSkeen, Michelle
Summary: "Stop comparing yourself to others--you're special just as you are!" That's the message psychologist Michelle Skeen and her daughter, Kelly Skeen, instill in teen readers with this unique self-help guide. With this fun and engaging book, teens will learn how to silence their nit-picky inner critic, overcome feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness, cultivate self-acceptance and self-compassion,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA155.5 SkeenBluth, Karen
Summary: "As a teen, you're going through major changes -- both physically and mentally. And all these big changes and confusing new emotions can leave you feeling super stressed out and anxious. To make matters worse, you may feel like you just aren't good enough and constantly compare yourself to friends, classmates, or even celebrities. So, how can you manage stress, silence your inner critic, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Instant Help Books, an imprint of New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y 155.5 ButFarmer, Art
Contents: Cascavelo (06 min., 21 sec.) / Muhlbradt -- The Day After (08 min., 28 sec.) / McIntosh -- Con-Fab (04 min., 33 sec.) / Pauer -- The Gap Sealer (06 min., 35 sec.) / Heath -- Cocodrilo (04 min., 30 sec.) / Politzer -- Whole Tone Stomp (05 min., 36 sec.) / Pauer.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal GmgH 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARPepper, Art
Contents: Wee (Allen's Alley) (7:39) -- Over the rainbow (10:28) -- In the middle of a kiss (8:51) -- Broadway (6:29) -- Girl from Ipanema (10:31) -- Breakdown blues (10:01).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Pablo Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PEPPEWassef, Nadia
Summary: "The warm and winning story of starting a bookstore where there were none, Shelf Life recounts Nadia Wassef's troubles and triumphs as founder and manager of Cairo-based Diwan"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASSEF, NADIA WASSummary: Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists’ feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? Compassion, features three contemporary artists-William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems-whose unique works and experimental methods explore the conscience and the possibility of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: In this program, artist, filmmaker, and dramatist William Kentridge demonstrates his remarkable filmmaking technique-stop-action animation using photos of charcoal drawings in which he has erased and redrawn scenes in different arrangements-as he works on Stereoscope. Footage from that piece as well as from History of the Main Complaint; Felix in Exile; Sobriety, Obesity & Growing Old; Mine;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Pepper, Art
Contents: CD 1: Brown Gold -- These foolish things -- Tickle toe -- Tenderly -- Strike up the band -- Night and day -- Deep purple -- CD 2: Bluebird -- Pennies from heaven -- 'S wonderful -- Holiday flight.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Jazz Factory 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PEPCastillo, Linda
Summary: "While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam Lengacher discovers a car stuck in a snowdrift and an unconscious woman inside. He calls upon Chief of Police Kate Burkholder for help, and she is surprised to recognize the driver: a fellow cop and former friend, Gina Colorosa. Years before, Kate and Gina were best friends at the police academy and patrol officers in Columbus,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CASSummary: Backed by a Church struggling to connect with the faithful, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted images imbued with physical immediacy and in-your-face drama. As this program shows, there was a trade-off: Caravaggio's biblical scenes frequently eschew, in the words of presenter Simon Schama, "any vision of consolation or redemption." Exploring the artist's humble origins, penchant for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Tatum, Art
Contents: Stay as sweet as you are / Harry Revel, Mack Gordon (2:41) -- Where or when / Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart (4:02) -- Louise / Richard A. Whiting, Leo Robin (3:05) -- Song of the vagabonds / Rufolf Friml, Brian Hooker (2:16) -- Night and day / Cole Porter (1:26) -- Poor butterfly / Raymond Hubbell, John Golden (3:26) -- Indiana / James F. Hanley, Ballard MacDonald (2:39) -- Sweet Lorraine /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ TATSummary: Journeying back to the dawn of Italian theater, this program unmasks the intriguing and often underappreciated tradition known as commedia dell' arte. Viewers will discover the history of Italian masked theater, the origins of commedia dell' arte and its various iterations, and the nature of its performers' improvised style. The program explains how the tradition's inspired...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007