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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Smarsh witnessed firsthand the vulnerabilities and strengths of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. Country music was a language among women-- and no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. Here Smarsh explores the overlooked contributions to social...
8) Van Gogh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and work of Van Gogh using superb full-color photography to bring the artist's work to life and to explore the conditions and motivations that inspired it
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
"Helen Frankenthaler, an early pioneer of the stained-canvas method, has produced a body of paintings, sculpture and prints whose impact on contemporary art has been significant. This study of the artist's career offers an analysis of the year-by-year evolution of her art. " --Blackwell.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Richard Diebenkorn, who died in 1993, is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The luminous abstractions of his later career and the innovative figurative works of his middle years firmly established him as a master in the high tradition of modernism."
"This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the artist presents a selection of the artist's oeuvre. Until...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The Scream. In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch's work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and speaking firsthand with other contemporary artists,...
15) Hundertwasser
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
"Friedrich Stowasser (1928, Vienna-2000, New Zealand), better known by the name of Friedensreich Hundertwasser, was a painter, thinker, and architect, or rather a 'doctor of architecture, ' as he declared in his manifesto of the 24th of January 1990. His architectural creations, organic and full of imagination, may have been influenced by the works of Antoni Gaudi. Yet, Hundertwasser was more radical in his philosophy. As expressed in his remarkable...
16) Reinventing Bach
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives. As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier--restoring organs, inventing instruments, and perfecting the tuning system still in use today....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Translation by Stanley Corngold.
18) Leonardo
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work, identifying what it was that made him so unique. Tells of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his views on God, humans, and nature
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