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"Stirring.... Raw and moving." —TIME
"Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald." —The Buffalo News
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TIME's 10 Best YA and Children's Books of 2020
NPR's Best Book of 2020
Shelf Awareness's Best Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall
Amazon's Best Book of the Month
AICL Best YA Books of 2020
CSMCL Best Multicultural Children's Books of 2020
PRAISE
"Stirring.... Raw and moving." —TIME
"Beautiful imagery and with words that soar and scald." —The Buffalo News
"Easily...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
American artist, poet, and novelist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939), has had an unusually varied and highly successful career across genres and media. This book, framed as a memoir, is composed of over forty years' worth of letters Chase-Riboud wrote to her beloved mother, and which she found in her mother's house around the time of her death. The letters begin in 1957, while the artist was a student in Paris, and continue through 1991.
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English
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"Written with unexpected humor and great warmth, The Widower's Notebook is a portrait of a marriage, an account of the complexities of finding oneself single again after losing your spouse, and a story of the enduring power of familial love. On a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife, Joy, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 911 call, an ambulance race across Manhattan, and hours pacing in a hospital...
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations (colour).
Language
English
Description
From Monet and Matisse to Van Gogh and Warhol, Modern Art for Kids is a guide to 20+ renowned artists, designed for both adults and children to enjoy together.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The impassioned, sometimes tragic chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of 20th-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. They burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Indomitable Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliance and charm made her...
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Series
Publisher
New Riders
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 243 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Language
English
Description
'Dialogues with Creative Legends: Aha Moments in a Designer's Career' explores the relationship of creativity and business, told through a series of interviews with influential visual designers and business leaders. Interviewees include key creative and business leaders of the late 20th century such as graphic design giants Paul Rand and Herb Lubalin, through to influential industrial designers George Nelson and Victor Papanek.
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Publisher
Peachpit Press
Pub. Date
©2014
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
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"In this fun, fast-paced introduction to the most iconic designers of our time, author John Clifford takes you on a visual history tour that's packed with the posters, ads, logos, typefaces, covers, and multimedia work that have made these designers great."--Publisher's description.
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