Rowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHWinter, Jeanette.
Summary: "When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 MATCohen-Solal, Annie
Summary: "A groundbreaking new study of Pablo Picasso that reveals how the artist fought to overcome the stigma he faced as a foreigner in France"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO COHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B PICASSO COHRichardson, John
Summary: The spectacular fourth and final volume of Picasso's life is set in Paris, Normandy, the south of France, Royan, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War and at the beginning of World War II. Drawing on original and exhaustive research from interviews and never-before-seen material in the Picasso family archives, this book opens with a visit by the Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICRoe, Sue.
Summary: A group portrait of the Impressionist artists traces how the movement's early leaders met in the studios of Paris and lived and worked together closely for several years, supporting one another through a series of emotional and financial difficulties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 ROEParker, 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 MATSummary: "'Genius: Picasso' is the second season of National Geographic's first fully scripted drama series. Diving into the life and loves of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso ... this season showcases Picasso's significant and wide-ranging contribution to modern art. Exploring the Spanish expatriate's devotion to his craft, the series also reveals Picasso's relationships with other well-known...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: MetroBooks 1999
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Contents: [v. 1]. The prodigy, 1881-1906
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RichardsonJackson, Jeffrey H.
Summary: "The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women -- Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe -- who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler andcalls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as "paper bullets," designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 JACRichardson, John
Summary: A comprehensive biography of Spanish painter and sculptor, Pablo Picasso, that chronicles his life and works from the time he left Paris in 1917 to 1932, the artist's fiftieth birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICGruitrooy, Gerhard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithmark 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.054 DEGHuffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO HuffingtonRodari, Florian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.2 MATSummary: Explore the little known and tender relationship that existed between artist Henri Matisse and a young woman who became his inspiration for beautiful works of art both before and after becoming a Dominican nun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MODMarkel, Michelle.
Summary: A child's biography of French artist Henri Rousseau, who spent his life as a toll collector, but created unheralded masterpieces in his spare time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROUFlam, Jack D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artists Rights Society 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 FLARichardson, John
Summary: This volume reveals the young artist Pablo Picasso in the somewhat rebellious role of "the painter of modern life", a role that stipulated the brothel as the noblest subject for a modern artist. Hence his great breakthrough painting, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, " with which this book opens. As well as portraying Picasso as a revolutionary, Richardson analyzes the more compassionate side of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PICASSO, PABLO RICSpurling, Hilary.
Summary: It is hard to believe today that Matisse was once almost universally reviled and ridiculed. His response was neither to protest nor to retreat; he simply pushed on from one innovation to the next, and left the world to draw its own conclusions. Unfortunately, these were generally false and often damaging. Throughout his life and afterward people fantasized about his models and circulated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MATISSE, HENRI SPUSummary: 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 ADVKiki
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Ecco Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KIKI KikiGristwood, Sarah
Summary: "Interest in Beatrix Potter and her characters is undimmed, with the second Peter Rabbit film being released in summer 2021 and an exhibition at the V&A from February 2022, 'Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature'. Few people realise how extraordinary Beatrix Potter's own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern businesswoman. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Trust Books 2021