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Arbus, Diane

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aperture 1984

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.2 ARB

Summary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFR

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PRO

Summary: The extraordinary story of a woman who defied tradition, a painter whose work captivated Edgar Degas, and the only American asked to join the French Impressionists. Best remembered for her tender yet unsentimental depictions of mothers and children, Cassatt was also a driving force for women's suffrage and other issues of her day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAR

Muskegon Museum of Art

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1994

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Summary: This is the true story of Gary Hart, the former Colorado senator who quickly rose to the top of the pack as the number one contender for the 1987 Democratic presidential primary. Due to his charisma and drive, Hart connects well with the younger constituents, and both himself and his aides see this a clear and present path to victory. But allegations soon emerge of an extramarital affair, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FRO

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD FRO

Summary: Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OCE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OCE

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OCE

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Oc

Ormond, Richard

Summary: Many of the sitters in this collection were John Singer Sargent's close friends. They are posed informally, sometimes in the act of painting or singing, and it is evident from the bold way they confront us that they are personalities of a creative stamp. Brilliant as these pictures are as works of art and penetrating studies of character, they are also records of relationships, allegiances,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The National Portrait Gallery 2015

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 702 SARGENT ORM

Schroth, Sarah.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2008

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.46 SCH

Evans, Walker

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton 2000

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Summary: Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's 2018

Conrads, Margaret C.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press in association with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 2001

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 CON

Neel, Alice

Summary: "Explores the themes and stylistic developments of the art of Alice Neel, one of the greatest American painters of the twentieth century, with works spanning nearly seven decades, four essays and additional texts addressing themes and specific works, three artists' appreciations, and a chronology and bibliography"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Fine Arts 2010

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 NEE

Kinchin, Juliet

Summary: Drawing on the wealth of automobile-related design, art and architecture in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Automania takes an in-depth look at an industrial object that changed the world. From its first appearance as a plaything for the rich in the 1890s to its establishment as a utilitarian necessity of modern life, the car has transformed the ways in which we live, work and enjoy...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum of Modern Art 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.9 KIN

Hennessey, Maureen Hart.

Summary: Essays examining Norman Rockwell's critical place in 20th-century American culture accompany 120 illustrations by the artist, including 80 in full color.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: High Museum of Art 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 750 HEN

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.13 HEN

Contents: Principles and themes -- Introduction: landscape and symbol / Richard F. Townsend -- Pre-Columbian images of time / Anthony F. Aveni -- The persistence of Maya tradition in Zinacantan / Evon Z. Vogt -- Mankind and the earth in America and Europe / Vincent Scully -- The Southwest -- Mimbres art: form and imagery / J.J. Brody -- The architecture of the ancient Southwest / Stephen H. Lekson --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Art Institute of Chicago 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 Ancient

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Museum of Art 1989

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 232.9 LIF

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Abradale Press/H.N. Abrams in association with the Museum of Modern Art, New York 1997

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.04 MUS

Summary: Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee's Bend to Rehoboth is being·released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tinwood Books 2003

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 746.46 GEE

Kaplan, Wendy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2004

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 745.409 KAP

Summary: "The newest anthology from Mystery Writers of America explores the theme of home and the crimes that endanger it, with stories by Ellen Hart, Naomi Hirahara, Walter Mosley, Sara Paretsky and more. Everyone comes from someplace. Everyone has somewhere they feel safe. Some people have found their home and are content where they are. Others feel trapped and yearn to go somewhere else. Many are...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022

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National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FOR

Summary: The female pharaoh Hatshepsut reigned for nearly twenty years during Egypt's early New Kingdom in the fifteenth century B.C. First acting as regent for her young nephew/stepson Thutmose III, she in time assumed the title of king and exercised the full powers of the throne as senior co-ruler. In accordance with Egyptian tradition, Hatshepsut was often depicted as a male king. After her death,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2005

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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2017

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.6 DAV

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