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Language
English
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Description
One of the world's best-known historians, in this fun, engaging and informative book, guides readers through a brief series of masterpieces of Western art, which can be used to understand the thousands of other, related objects they might encounter in the future.
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Pub
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
In today's fast-paced world, creative people are as eager as ever to pursue their artistic passions, but many of them simply don't have enough time. Catering to this modern dilemma, we've concocted the perfect remedy for over-burdened artists. The Daily Book of Art includes a year's worth of brief daily readings and lessons about the visual arts that entertain as they inform. Ten exciting categories of discussion rotate throughout the course of a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"The imaginary art museum: an educational, inspiring experience without the constraints of space and time. Discover beautiful reproductions from pre-history to the present, arranged in easy-to-navigate, colour-coded wings, galleries, and rooms, each with an informative narrative guide. Marvel at its remarkable range of styles and mediums - from classic to contemporary, and from paintings and sculptures to photographs and textiles. With floor plans...
Author
Publisher
Thomasson-Grant
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents twelve color reproductions of paintings by artists from Holbein to Picasso, with questions to stimulate discussion and background information on each artist and painting.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 4
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
Invites the reader to take a closer look at paintings by such artists as Botticelli, Bruegel, Velasquez, Copley, and Van Gogh, providing information about the artist, subject, and medium of each work of art.
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
612 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Within each time period, provides examples of significant works in painting, sculpture, drawing and other media. Highlights themes that were important at various times such as nudes, landscape, still life, and love. Includes brief biographies of some artists and a "closer look" in depth for the most significant works.
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