McCullough, David G
Summary: Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.0092 MCCSummary: Presents brief profiles of over eighty major artists throughout history, providing the historical context in which each artist worked, their influences, and legacies.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2017
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.22 ARTAmbler, Frances
Summary: "Trace The Story of Bauhaus through the 100 personalities, designs, ideas and events that shaped this monumental movement. Learn about leaders Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Anni Albers and Wassily Kandinsky; witness wild parties and groundbreaking events that would revolutionise contemporary design; and discover a range of innovative ideas and new ways of thinking. Now 100 years old, the Bauhaus...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ilex 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 707.1 AMBSummary: This elaborately produced documentary series made up of six episodes plunges into Parisian life at the beginning of the twentieth century, a hotbed of artistic creation with the blossoming of Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. Through illustrations, animation and stunning original archival footage, the films trace the highs and lows, scandals and celebrations, tragedies, and the triumphs...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ADVSummary: Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks, some even 1700 years before him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEOMerberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist Paul Gauguin, rhyming text reveals the way of life in a South Seas island village.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2007