Richardson, 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 RIC

Richardson, 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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Richardson, 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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Summary: In Mario Bava's gothic horror masterpiece steeped in rich atmosphere, condemned witch Princess Asa returns from the dead two centuries after her execution and wreaks vengeance on her killers' family. Possessing the body of a descendant who happens to look just like her, Asa pulls out all the stops to exact her revenge. This is Bava's credited directorial debut, and it catapulted Steele and him...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Classics 2012

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BLA

Contents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010

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Mingus, Charles

Contents: Better git it in your soul : (alternate) (8:30) -- Bird calls : (alternate) (4:53) -- Jelly roll : (alternate) (6:41) -- Song with orange : (alternate) (6:42) -- Diane : (alternate) (7:29) -- New now, know how : (alternate) (4:19) -- Revelations : first movement (12:01) -- Non-sectarian blues (3:33).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MIN

Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

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Summary: When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana; a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, an architecture enthusiast who works at the local library. As their intimacy develops, they explore both the town and their conflicted emotions: Jin's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COL

Summary: Based on the true story of Ron Kovic, a young man who volunteered for the Vietnam War, was wounded, and returned paralyzed from the mid-chest down. He later became a new voice for those disenchanted with the war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BOR

Summary: Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have vowed to make whole the victims of the elusive, mysterious serial slasher called the Carver. But mending the rifts in their own families and careers will require much more than their famed technical skills. The two perform a daring facial transplant to a 650-pound woman whose skin has fused with her sofa. Dr. Quentin Costa is the new doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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Summary: June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHU

Summary: Sean McNamara and Christian Troy are two plastic surgeons running a partnership in Miami, Florida with different views on life. Sean is a weak family man who distances himself with work to avoid a dysfunctional home life that includes his wife Julie and his rebellious teenage son Matt. Christian is an arrogant, narcissistc, unethical ladies' man who worships wine, women, and the almighty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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Doyle, Arthur Conan

Contents: disc 1. Blue carbuncle ; Golden pince-nez -- disc 2. Norwood builder ; Solitary cyclist -- disc 3. Final problem ; Case of identity -- disc 4. Six Napoleons ; Dying detective -- disc 5. Second stain ; Speckled band -- disc 6. Charles Augustus Milverton ; Scandal in Bohemia.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DOY

Summary: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

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Summary: A band of rabbits escapes the threatened collapse of their highly developed civilization only to find the same dangers (predatory men and beasts, and a totalitarian state imposed by their own species) in their new domain. Animated

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2002

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1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD Watership

Summary: A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOV

Summary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOO

Summary: "Open Britain's most famous door for a glimpse at the personal affairs that have unfolded over the centuries inside Number 10 Downing Street. Spanning the Napoleonic era to the 1920s, each episode tells the story of a great public statesman, and of the private individual whose passions, hopes, and fears played out within the narrow confines of Number 10"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NUM

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Summary: In twelve fully dramatized episodes, the great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street, with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion, Dr. Watson. Orson Welles makes a special appearance as the nefarious Professor Moriarty.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2009

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FIC DOY

Summary: Based on the acclaimed movie, this is an episodic series that tells the story of a group of black students navigating the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly as post-racial as it thinks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DEA

Summary: In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003

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

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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD HOU