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...
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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: A comprehensive record of the greatest achievements in the history of western art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world, from Botticelli to Van Gogh.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LANSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 HISMühlberger, 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 DEGSmee, Sebastian
Summary: From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans--then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway Commune, ultimately crushed by the French Army after bloody street battles and the burning of central Paris. As renowned art critic Sebastian Smee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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Summary: Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zola, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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Summary: From many years without recognition, money and yet a family to raise, all the way to great success, critically and financially, Monet pursued insistently one vision: catching the light in painting, refusing to compromise on this ethereal pursuit. It cost him dearly but he was a beacon for his contemporaries. We discover in this comics biography how he came to this vision as well as his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUBWiggins, Colin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.L. Levin Associates 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.9492 VANContents: pt. 1. Impressionism in France / by Peter H. Feist -- pt. 2. Impressionism in Europe and North America / by Beatrice von Bismarck ... [et al.].
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 IMPDenvir, Bernard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bulfinch Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.409 DENStuckey, 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 STUFeist, Peter H.
Contents: Renoir's family, friends and teachers, 1841-1867 -- A new style of art, 1867-1871 -- The great decade of Impressionism, 1872-1883 -- Masterpieces of realist Impressionism -- The crisis of Impressionism and the "dry period," 1883-1887 -- Sickness and old age, 1888-1919 -- Renoir's late works -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919 : his life and work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: B. Taschen 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.4 FEIFell, Derek.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Southern Books 1994
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 712 FELSummary: Claude Monet recalls the story of the Impressionists - a movement that shook the foundation of the art world. He and fellow painters Auguste Renoir and Frederic Bazille begin a forty-year struggle against the Salon, the annual state art exhibition. Overcoming criticism, poverty and misfortune, Monet along with his counterparts eventually achieve the success they had only dreamed about.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV IMPCourthion, Pierre.
Summary: Surveys the development of impressionist art, with reproductions of more than 145 paintings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. N. Abrams 1972
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.054 COUDenvir, Bernard
Summary: Explains the movement, its artists, and the era in which they worked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mallard Press 1990
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Summary: Uses photographs and period paintings to illustrate the biography of the impressionist painter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.13 CASMarwan, Zahra
Summary: Vincent van Gogh paints what others consider inelegant. But painting those sunflowers bring happiness to his troubled heart. And it isn't until he begins traveling that his world opens up to new friends and new ideas that help his heart and art thrive more than he could have ever imagined. Award-winning author-illustrator Zahra Marwan has depicted a breathtaking passage of Vincent van Gogh's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GOGVreeland, Susan.
Summary: Renoir is inspired to paint "Luncheon of the boating party" when his other work is criticized by Emile Zola, and while doing so is drawn into lives of the thirteen people featured in it as they enjoy a Parisian summer during the late 1800s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC VRESummary: A biography of Norwegian expressionist painter Edvard Munch and the effect his upbringing in Norway had on his work and whose raw, modern work The Scream shocked the bourgeois world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDVRoe, 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