Smithsonian American Art Museum

Contents: From distant shores -- This other Eden -- Liberty more than life -- Ever westward -- Hand to the plow -- Brother against brother -- The rise of industry -- An eye for beauty -- Seeing the city -- The Harlem renaissance -- South by southwest -- The Great Depression -- Folk traditions -- Americans at midcentury -- The abstract impulse -- Toward the millennium -- Catalogue.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2006

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National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989

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Cross-Smith, Leesa

Summary: "Having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, Vincent has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she's even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her Irish husband, Cillian, has...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022

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Meister, Cari

Summary: Colorful pictures and simple text describe the kinds of things you might see and do at an art museum.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Jump!, Inc. 2016

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N. Y.)

Summary: Presents artworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art arranged by such themes as animals, family, music, dance, play, and country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books For Young Readers 2019

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Bernasek, Lisa

Contents: The Imazighen and their arts -- Touring Kabylia -- Harvard in the Rif -- Collecting Tuareg art -- Amazigh art today -- Color plates.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2008

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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997

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Newell, Jennifer.

Summary: Book Description: Pacific Art in Detail introduces the riches of Oceanic art through astonishing close-up views of rarely seen treasures, allowing behind-the-scenes insight into this vibrant work that no conventional gallery tour affords. Carefully selected pieces from the world-renowned Oceanic collection at the British Museum-by artists employing a wide variety of materials and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2011

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Blakey, Art

Contents: In The Basement --Try A Little Tenderness --Little Girl Blue --On The Roof --Minority --Salute to Birdland --Eleanor --Futurity --Simplicity --Strictly Romantic --Hello --Mayreh.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verve Records 2006

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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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Platt, Christine A.

Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019

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Summary: This text examines the collection of feminist art in the Museum of Modern Art. It features essays presenting a range of generational and cultural perspectives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2010

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Bringley, Patrick

Summary: "Only a few select people enjoy unrestricted access to every nook and cranny of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and among them are the guards who keep a watchful eye on the two-million-square-foot treasure house. For Bringley, the Museum was a temporary refuge that became his home away from home for a decade. Here he explore his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the subculture of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Summary: Teaching is more than a job--it's a responsibility, one of the greatest responsibilities in civilized society. Teachers lay bare the mysteries of the world; train minds to explore, question, investigate, and discover; and ensure that knowledge is not lost or forgotten but passed on to future generations. Teachers shape lives in limitless ways, both inside and outside of the classroom. But...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 2003

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Horn, Art

Contents: The people in your (work) neighborhood: The worrier; The controller; The fake; The attention-seeker; The victim; The prisoner -- Hell is not just other people: The transcendence model; Here comes the judge; Our shaky foundations; How we judge -- Moving from fear to freedom: What's your operating strategy?; A case of disidentification; There goes the judge; A way of being; A better way.

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Publisher / Publication Date: American Management Association 2004

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Farmer, 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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Pepper, 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).

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pablo Records 1995

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Shaw, Art

Summary: On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, 1.5 million men gathered aboard 1,500 Allied ships off the coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, to launch the largest amphibious assault on the Pacific Theater. then-Major Shaw was the first American officer ashore, a unit commander in the U.S. Army's 361st Field Artillery Battalion of the 96th Infantry Division, nicknamed the Deadeyes. For the next three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

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Birkerts, Sven.

Summary: "In The Art of Time in Memoir, critic, editor, and memoirist Sven Birkerts examines the human impulse to write about the self. "Memoir is, for better and often for worse, the genre of our times," Birkerts writes. But what makes one memoir memorable and another self-serving? What determines the difference between graceful disclosure and sensational self-exposure? Birkerts argues that the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2008

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Tatum, Art

Contents: Stormy weather -- Sweet Lorraine -- Humoresque -- I know that you know -- Humoresque -- Ain't misbehavin' -- Smoke gets in your eyes -- I can't give you anything but love -- Danny boy -- How high the moon -- Begin the beguine -- Cherokee -- Down by the Old Mill Stream -- Sweet Lorraine -- How high the moon -- Gershwin medley. The man I love ; Summertime ; It ain't necessarily so ; I got plenty...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Storyville Records 2003

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Vande Velde, Vivian

Summary: Twitch narrates the story of his adventures when he joins the kids on a field trip to the science museum.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019

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