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21) Manet
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
This book interweaves biography with artistic analysis to provide a complete understanding of Manet's character and work. A unique "private album" of the artist's materials, contemporary photographs, and his own letters is presented alongside superb color reproductions of 70 of Manet's major and lesser-known works.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into...
23) Frida Kahlo
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, including her childhood, her art and her marriage to Diego Rivera.
25) Georgia O'Keeffe
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the life of Georgia O'Keeffe and describes her unique style of art.
27) Edgar Degas
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the life of Edgar Degas and describes his unique style of art.
28) Action Jackson
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.
29) Van Gogh
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Description
Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always...
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Description
To Christina Olson, the entire world was her familys remote farm in the small coastal town of Cushing, Maine. Born in the home her family had lived in for generations, and increasingly incapacitated by illness, Christina seemed destined for a small life. Instead, for more than twenty years, she was host and inspiration for the artist Andrew Wyeth, and became the subject of one of the best known American paintings of the twentieth century. Author Christina...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 21
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Description
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they painted clock faces with a mysterious new substance called radium. Assured by their bosses that the luminous material was safe, the women themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered from head to toe with the glowing dust. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" were considered the luckiest alive--until they began to fall mysteriously...
34) Andy Warhol
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses the life of Andy Warhol and describes his unique style of art.
35) Before the fall
Author
Description
On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the passengers disappear into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs--the painter--and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of a wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the tragedy and the...
36) The miniaturist
Author
Series
Miniaturist novels volume 1
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Description
Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
39) Grandma Moses
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century American painter, describing and giving examples of her art.
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Formats
Description
"An unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another from an award-winning author Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing. Her life is a whirl of parties and drinking, pursued by the press and staying on just the right side of scandal, all while running from the life her parents would choose for her. Lawrence Weston is a penniless painter who stumbles into Selina's orbit one night and can never let her...