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Publisher
Vulcan Productions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
During the 1960s the United Kingdom was the location for a vibrant social revolution. The post-war traditional jazz and folk revival movements sewed the seeds for a new kind of blues music, entirely influenced by the black blues of the USA. Mike Figgis' film mixes interviews with dozens of the key players of the British blues movement with new music from an all-star jam session at the famous Abbey Road studios.
Author
Publisher
DelMonico Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Wild Things Are Happening emphasizes Maurice Sendak's relationship to the history of art and the influences of his art collecting on his images. It features previously unpublished sketches, story boards and paintings that emphasize Sendak's creative processes. Bringing together a broad diversity of perspectives on the award-winning artist, the book includes an extended essay by the renowned art historian Thomas Crow that traces the genesis and cultural...
4) Botticelli
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1991-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the Italian painter of the early Renaissance, describing and giving examples of his art.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the popular and talented film director describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents’ traumatic divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of the most expensive painting by Leonardo da Vinci ever sold, The Salvator Mundi, discussing the questions around its authenticity and how the hidden agendas and vested interests of art collectors and art institutions make finding the truth about it of secondary importance.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Frank O. Gehry and Sydney Pollack are friends. Pollack: "Frank kept on ... trying to get me to do this ... I said, Frank, look, I know nothing about architecture ... about documentaries. He said, 'That's why you're perfect.'" Thanks to computer technology, Gehry's minimal, erratically penned, squiggly sketches are translated by a team of model makers, software wizards, and engineers into plans that evolve into grand monuments. This exploration of...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply personal search for meaning in Michelangelo’s frescoes―and an impassioned defence of the role of art in a fractured age. What do we hope to get out of seeing a famous piece of art? Jeannie Marshall asked that question of herself when she started visiting the Sistine Chapel frescoes. She wanted to understand their meaning and context―but in the process, she also found what she didn’t know she was looking for. All Things Move: Learning...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"How do we read William Faulkner in the twenty-first century? asks Michael Gorra, one of America's most preeminent literary critics. Should we still read William Faulkner in this new century? What can his works tell us about the legacy of slavery and the Civil War, that central quarrel in our nation's history? These are the provocative questions that Michael Gorra asks in this historic portrait of the novelist and his world. Born in 1897 in Mississippi,...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible. wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People) A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, andvampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion. In The World of All Souls, Harkness shares the rich sources...
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