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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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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSummary: Art appreciation requires an understanding of the medium, the subject matter, and the subtexts inherent in the artists' techniques. In this program, correspondent Paul Solman and art historian Wen Fong visit an exhibit that is emblematic of Imperial China from the 8th century to the 17th. Styles discussed include the Imperial "propaganda" of the Sung and Ming dynasties; the wild spontaneity of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Farmer, Art.
Contents: Street of dreams (4:13) -- Rain check (3:37) -- Rue prevail (4:03) -- The sweetest sounds (from "No strings") (4:32) -- My romance (from "Jumbo") (4:52) -- Fly me to the moon (2:51) -- Naima (5:18) -- Ruby (4:33)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1962
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FARMorimoto, Masaharu
Summary: The revered Iron Chef shows how to make flavorful, exciting traditional Japanese meals at home in this beautiful cookbook that is sure to become a classic, featuring a carefully curated selection of fantastic recipes and more than 150 color photos.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 MORPepper, 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 PEPPEBernasek, Lisa
Contents: The Imazighen and their arts -- Touring Kabylia -- Harvard in the Rif -- Collecting Tuareg art -- Amazigh art today -- Color plates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 730.089 BERHorn, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.13 HORElsner, Jaś.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 ElsnerSummary: Although rendered in stone, the sculptures of Gian Lorenzo Bernini convey a sense of weightlessness perhaps unequalled in the history of Western art. This program illustrates Bernini's nearly miraculous ability to turn marble into a vessel of rapture, both spiritual and sexual. With The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa as his principal focus, presenter Simon Schama examines numerous works by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
Contents: Coming soon (1:31) -- African woman = Umafazi w ese Afriki (13:54) -- Fundamental destiny (9:13) -- Fresh start (6:41) -- Khauleza = Hurry up (2:43) -- The bottom line (5:31) -- Black man = Indoda emnyama (9:18)
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Publisher / Publication Date: DIW 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ARTDetroit Institute of Arts
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 0000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 AmeJapanese Breakfast (Musical group)
Contents: Diving woman -- Road head -- Machinist -- Planetary ambience -- Soft sounds from another planet -- Boyish -- 12 steps -- Jimmy Fallon big -- Body is a blade -- Till death -- This house -- Here come the tubular bells.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAPMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIFArt of Noise (Musical group)
Contents: A time for fear (Who's afraid) -- Beat box (Diversion one) -- Snapshot -- Close (to the edit) -- Who's afraid (of the Art of Noise) -- Moments in love -- Momento -- How to kill -- Realization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Records 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ARTMetropolitan 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.747 IBirkerts, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.93592 BIRSmithsonian 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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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SLOSummary: Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. High anxiety: Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Richard Thorndyke is a nut-job with a paralyzing fear of heights. He had just become head of the Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very Very Nervous. History of the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MELBeard, Mary
Summary: "From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who getscommemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.02 BEAMuseum 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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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUSSummary: Far from disappearing after the Hellenistic age, Greek art flourished with the rise of Christianity and the Orthodox church. This program explores the development of icon painting, the influence of Greek artists on later European movements, and the advent of neoclassical architecture as a manifestation of an age-old cultural legacy. With historical context from the conversion of Constantine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: If the French Revolution had an official painter, it was Jacques-Louis David-although "official propagandist" is a much more accurate term. This program follows David's career from his early ambitions as a Prix de Rome scholar to the actions that defined him, morally and artistically, during the reigns of Robespierre and Napoleon. With The Death of Marat as its centerpiece, the program studies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007