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Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches children to read and play music; her husband, Tasso, who paints pictures of the forest, his greatest muse; and Chara, their young daughter, whose name means joy. On the fateful day that will forever alter the trajectory of their lives, flames chase fleeing birds across the sky. The wildfire that will consume their home, and their lives as they know it,...
262) Tulip fever
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
French director Henri-Georges Clouzot created a film showing the process in which Pablo Picasso created his work. Captured is the moment and mystery of creativity as the master completed twenty artworks, ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to widescreen color paintings. Almost every painting created in this film was destroyed after it was finished. In 1984 the French government declared the film a national treasure.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling author and art critic Laura Cumming reveals the fascinating, little-known story of the Thunderclap--the massive explosion at a gunpowder store in Holland that killed Carel Fabritius, renowned painter of The Goldfinch, and nearly killed Johannes Vermeer, painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring--two of the greatest artists of the 17th century"--
265) Mrs Lowry and son
Publisher
Cleopatra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Beloved British artist L.S. Lowry lived all his life with his overbearing mother Elizabeth. Bedridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tried to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, while never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he was to her.
266) Diego Rivera
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
202 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Esta novela gráfica, bellamente ilustrada, retrata la vida y la época de un artista cuya realidad es indistinguible del mito que lo rodea.
267) The last nude
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars. Paris, 1927. In the heady years before the crash, financiers drape their mistresses in Chanel, while expatriates flock to the avant-garde bookshop Shakespeare and Company. One day in July, a young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a coolly dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka....
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Ekaré
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
A través de un sencillo juego, este libro propone la búsqueda de figuras y situaciones particulares entre las obras de la artista venezolana Socorro Salinas. Los lectores de cualquier edad podrán descubrir todo tipo de detalles inesperados e historias alucinantes del universo de esta pintora que aborda de manera profunda y compleja la diversidad cultural.
269) The shell seekers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
632 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A tale of three generations of an English family with roots in London and Cornwall, and a cherished painting that has passed from generation to generation and threatens to tear the family apart.
270) La cocinera de Frida
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de Mxico desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prcticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dej paraltica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos aos despus en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli se asent...
271) Portrait of Jennie
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr., 26 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An artist meets a schoolgirl in Central Park who has a mysterious air about her. What follows is an unforgettable love story.
272) Van Gogh's ear
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Art historians attempt to find out the truth behind Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh cutting off his ear.
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