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Author
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and career of the nineteenth-century French artist Eugène Delacroix, whose experiments with color and scenes of action led to Impressionism and other modern art styles.
3) Delacroix
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1971
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Gallery Company in association with the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Noon and Riopelle explore the artist's influence on modern art in the late-18th and early-20th centuries. An analysis and comparison with works by various artists whom he influenced include Edouard Manet, John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Eugène Fromentin, Théodore Chassériau, Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña, Frédéric Bazille, Ary Scheffer, Gustave Moreau, Alexandre-Gabriel...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aurore Dupin left her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family's estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. As George Sand, she was known for her novels-- but even more for her scandalous behavior. She wore men's clothing, smoked cigars, and had love affairs with famous men and women. As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. Will the life she longs for...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
308 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm
Language
English
Description
"Discover the secret symbols and meaning behind 62 featured paintings in this unique volume. Ranging from Giotto's 14th-century painting of the Last Judgment to the 19th-century symbolist Gustave Moreau's depiction of Jupiter and Semele, each work has been selected for its own symbolic enigma. This book's innovative design pairs each painting with a page of die-cut windows that help the reader focus on specific aspects of each painting and features...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of familial burdens and cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men" --
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Just out of college, Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse painting she saw in the Art Institute of Chicago: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen behind her. This woman seemed a welcome secular version of the nuns of Hampl's girlhood, free and untouchable, a poster girl for twentieth-century feminism. In Blue Arabesque, Hampl explores the allure of that woman, immersed in leisure, so at odds with the increasing...
10) Renoir
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes, and figure paintings.
Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes, and figure paintings. At the beginning of his prolific career he employed the Impressionist techniques, where detail was denied, and replaced with soft fusions...
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (186 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series presents a unique and masterly survey of the greatest achievements in the history of art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world. This authoritative and thought-provoking series employs powerful graphic images to entertain and inform the student and the art lover. The collection also features expert commentary and analyses from leading authorities, art historians and scholars, new location footage and re-creations.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
761 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . [This book] puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass, to help us look much, much closer at images we might have thought we knew well. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen help us become detectives of details, solving the mysteries of a masterpiece through its most small and subtle elements. Is the bride pregnant? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier?...
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