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2) Mary Cassatt
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Born in 1844 in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburg, Mary Cassatt reached maturity in an era when the options open to most women were limited to marriage. Her passion for art overwhelmed the mores of the time and she dedicated her life to painting-European.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of an audacious resistance campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women--Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe --who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute wicked insults against Hitler and calls to desert, a PSYOPs tactic known as 'paper bullets,' designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home of Jersey in the British Channel Islands"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A group portrait of artists Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, Jack Youngerman, and the street they all called home, Coenties Slip in the 1950s and 1960s"--
8) Ulysses
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
This account of several lower class citizens of Dublin describes their activities and tells what some of them were thinking one day in 1904
Publisher Marketing: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Considered the greatest 20th century novel written in English, in this edition Walter Gabler uncovers previously unseen text. It is a disillusioned study of estrangement, paralysis and the disintegration of society.
10) Andy Warhol
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A simple biography of a man who helped develop Pop Art and made art fun fro many people.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor -- all of which informs her...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
"Providing broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, the dictionary has entries on more than a thousand artists and on all the major movements and styles of the twentieth century, including Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Art Deco, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Body and Performance art, and Neo-Expressionism." "In addition there are entries on art schools and galleries, exhibitions and prizes, terms and techniques. Although the dictionary...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles eight artists and artisans now living in America who are originally from the "Silk Road," an ancient network of caravan trails through which trade goods, ideas, and arts pass between Asia and the Mediterranean.
19) Pablo Picasso
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life and work of Pablo Picasso, following the development of his artistic style and his influence on twentieth-century art