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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Author Birthdays - December
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Art & Artist Fiction
Author Birthdays - December
Read Alikes For Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, 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....
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Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Provides images of paintings and new, sensory ways to experience them, such as tasting the milk in Vermeer's "The Milkmaid," hearing the music in Tanner's "The Banjo Lesson," or feeling the fur in da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine."
Publisher
Dk Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Packed with photographs, composer biographies, analyses of major works, and essential information on every musical genre, style, form, instrument, and ensemble, DK's Complete Classical Music Guide is a portable encyclopedic guide to more than one thousand years of Western classical music. From Bach to Berlioz, Glinka to Gershwin, Stravinsky to Shostakovich, and everyone in between, the Complete Classical Music Guide contains more than three hundred...
15) Art is
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and photographs show that art is much more than just what can be hung on a wall or set on a pedestal.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Presents a diverse collection of twenty well-known paintings which show how, through the centuries, artists have hidden small details to be discovered by curious eyes.
Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it presents a diverse collection of twenty well-known paintings which show how, through the centuries, artists have hidden small details to be discovered by curious eyes - a musical horse, a nest of baby birds, even an artist's...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musician offers his own take on jazz music as he discusses the secrets of listening to jazz, the different styles of various jazz musicians, its improvisational principles, and its influence on modern life and on one's view of the world around.
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