Kostenevich, A. G. (Alʹbert Grigorʹevich)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.44 KosteSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ADVSummary: This series of lectures introduces the greatest of universal museums. Its aim is not comprehensive. The focus is narrowed to the Department of Paintings, which is responsible for European paintings from the Middle Ages until the mid-19th century. These works of art form an encyclopedic summary of the achievements of painters that can be called the single most important such collection in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 708.4 MUSCall number: DVD 708.4 MUS
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great 708.4 MuseumBonfante-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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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 BONHannan, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interlink Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.4 HANMühlberger, Richard.
Summary: Explores such art topics as style, composition, color, and subject matter as they relate to twelve works by Degas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Viking 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.44 DEGStuckey, Charles F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Hills Press 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 STUPowell, Julie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.5 POWWelton, Jude.
Summary: Examines the lives of impressionist painters and the influences that shaped their work through re-created albums of letters, sketches, and photographs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley in association with the Art Institute of Chicago 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Graber, Corinne
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Publisher / Publication Date: CLB 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 GRAWiggins, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Callen, Anthea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.054 CALSummary: Surveying the uncompromising life and career of the erstwhile Amandine Aurore-Lucie Dupin, this program familiarizes viewers with her literary output, political beliefs, and the widely varied circles she inhabited. Beginning with her birth in Paris, the film describes Sand's semi-aristocratic upbringing, stifling marriage, turbulent romances, creative evolution, and visionary proto-feminist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Parker, Marjorie Blain.
Summary: Presents the life and work of the turn-of-the-twentieth-century French artist, imagining his art-inspired childhood and growth into becoming one of the most admired artists in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books For Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MATBrodskai͡a, N. V. (Natalʹi͡a Valentinovna)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parkstone 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.0643 BRODSStevenson, Lesley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 STECunningham, Antonia.
Summary: This book looks in detail at all aspects of the work of the Impressionists, who changed the face of nineteenth-century painting radically with their interest in capturing a fleeting moment on canvas and in working outdoors instead of in their studios.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 CUNSummary: From the edgy architecture of the Grande Arche de la Défense to the priceless paintings that line the walls of the Musée d’Orsay, France spends a significant part of its national budget on culture. This program shows viewers how to voice an opinion - positive or negative - on French architecture, ask for information at a museum, and speak analytically about works by the great masters. Also, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009