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Benedikt Taschen art booksBarnes, Julian
Summary: "An extraordinary collection--hawk-eyed and understanding--from the Booker Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Sense of an Ending and Levels of Life. As Julian Barnes explains: "Flaubert believed that...great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting....But it is a rare picture that stuns,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knope 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 709.03 BARSummary: Was Roy Lichtenstein a great artist, a thief, or both? This is the question addressed by the feature documentary. Along with Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein created the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. His comic-based paintings reside in the greatest art galleries and can fetch more than $150 million. But some view this renowned artist as a plagiarist. WHAAM! BLAM! focuses upon the last living comic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASalle, David
Summary: How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries-from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 700 SALWichmann, Siegfried
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Lane 1985
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Publisher / Publication Date: CLB 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 GRABonfante-Warren, Alexandra.
Summary: The Musee d'Orsay contains one of the most magnificent collections of 19th- and early 20th-century art in the world. Limited to the years between 1848 and 1914, the collection showcases Impressionist and Postimpressionist favorites by Monet, Renoir, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Signac. In addition, Realist, Nabis, Symbolist, and Fauvist movements are represented in works by Millet, Gauguin,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.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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Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 NERGlubok, Shirley.
Summary: A survey of American art from 1940 to the present which includes "white writing," action painting, abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, stabiles, and kinetic sculpture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 709 GLUMundy, Jennifer
Summary: Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MUNSummary: A portrait of one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century, and the inventor of an art form, the mobile. Shows Calder at work in his studio, includes archival films and photographs, and features interviews with contemporaries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALEWeber, Nicholas Fox
Summary: In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s. --from publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WeberAdes, Dawn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 ADERowland, Anna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grange Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 RowlandSummary: "Offers an A to Z guide to the art of an extraordinary age. From old favourites such as monet, Picasso, Dalí, and Hockney to the most innovative contemporary artists, 500 full-page colour plates present celebrated works alongside future classics. Each image is accompanied by an incisive text, shedding light on the work and its creator. The alphabetical arrangement presents thought-provoking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.04 TWEWalther, Ingo F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benedikt Taschen 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.6 WALHeller, Nancy.
Summary: Comparing modern art not only to pizzas but also to traditional and childrenUs art, a professor of art history shows readers how people can refine analytical tools they already possess to understand and enjoy even the most unfamiliar paintings and sculptures. 49 color illustrations. 40 halftones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.06 HELJohnson, Jay.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.22 JOHBeckett, Wendy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Books 1988