Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: The development of the arts in Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era is an astonishing record of cultural achievement, from the breathtaking architecture of Gothic cathedrals to the daring visual experiments of the Cubist painters. We all have our favorite artists, periods, or styles from this immensely rich tradition, but how many of us truly know the full sweep of European art? How...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISSummary: Critical Dictionary is an ambitious cornucopia of thoughts, images, and illustrations from online art magazine criticaldictionary.com, in addition to newly commissioned work. The title alludes to the mock dictionary that philosopher Georges Bataille edited for Documents in 1929 and 1930. Like this famous precedent, Critical Dictionary aims to puncture pretension, bringing words and their...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog Pub. 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.04 CRISummary: Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HERBarnes, 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 BARSalle, 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 SALSummary: Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work of art for an extraordinary setting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS REDNéret, Gilles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1998
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 NERSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAMundy, 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 MUNAugustin, Marion
Summary: "In this informative graphic novel sequel, two kids and their grandpa continue their adventurous guided exploration of art and civilization beginning with the Renaissance and moving forward into modern art"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.04 AUGBlake, Robin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BlakeWeidemann, Christiane.
Summary: A century and a half of masterpieces is covered in this chronologically arranged volume that captures the development of art in a new age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in double-page spreads that show how these artists continued to redefine norms and challenge tradition. Biographical and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709.22 WEISummary: "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 TWEHarman, Alice
Summary: "Featuring a diverse range of artists, Modern Art Explorer takes young readers on an undercover adventure to discover the stories behind famous modern artworks"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson Inc. 2020