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"A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
3) Frida
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 29 cm.
Description
Discusses the childhood of Frida Kahlo and how it influenced her art.
5) Spiral
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Description
"The harrowing story of a shy and possibly disturbed painter and telemarketer, his arrogant longtime friend and boss, and the carefree new co-worker whose love may offer a portrait of normalcy. But in a life scarred by dark secrets, can the truth be the most horrifying pose of all?"--Container.
Author
Publisher
David Zwirner Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 509 pages : illustrations chiefly color ; 20 cm
Description
"Phoebe Hoban's definitive biography of the renowned American painter Alice Neel tells the unforgettable story of an artist whose life spanned the twentieth century, from women's suffrage through the Depression, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, and feminism. Throughout her life and work, Neel constantly challenged convention, ultimately gaining an enduring place in the canon. Alice Neel's stated goal was to "capture the...
9) Mr. Turner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
Explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies.
Publisher
Museyon
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
208 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 21 cm.
Description
Describes how five cities influenced five artists: Van Gogh's Arles, France; Munch's Oslo, Norway; Vermeer's Delft, the Netherlands; Caravaggio's Rome; and Goya's Madrid. This guide allows a tourist to stand where pictures were painted and see what the artist saw (albeit in the present setting). Packed with a crash course on the history of each artist, walking tours, information on where to stay, directions on how to get to the cities and around them,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--
Series
Criterion collection volume 1034
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1760 France, Marianne arrives at an isolated seaside estate to secretly paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has recently left the convent and is about to enter a chattel marriage.
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prep school teacher Jack Marcus meets his match in Dina Delsanto, an abstract painter and new teacher on campus. He challenges her to a war between words and pictures, and in the process, sparks an unlikely romance.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts a dazzling Jazz Age jewel--a novel of ambition, betrayal, and passion about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame. "[M.J. Rose] transports the reader into the past better than a time machine could accomplish" (The Associated Press). New York, 1924....
19) Paul Klee
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A definitive biography accompanied by spectacular images of the artist's greatest work.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese, Double Day
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts, while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation, in which...
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