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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wordless picture book in which a boy spends his day traveling through masterpieces of Western art, including works by Boticelli and Banksy, and ending at a tree for everyone's creations. Includes a chart showing the artist, title, and date of each work represented.
4) On ugliness
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
In a companion volume to his "History of Beauty," the renowned philosopher and cultural critic analyzes our attraction to the gruesome, horrific, and repellant in visual culture and the arts, drawing on abundant examples of painting and sculpture, ranging from antiquity to the works of Bosch, Goya, and others.
Author
Publisher
Collins Design
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Presents a discussion of postmodern art from 1945 to 2008, covering the currents, themes, and names that are part of contemporary art in its various forms, including painting, sculpting, photography, performance art, architecture, land art, graffiti artists, action painting, and more, and contains over four hundred color images.
11) The inferno
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first part of Dante's classic poem of faith follows the author with his guide Virgil through the circles of hell, describing the sinners and punishments witnessed there.
13) Alphonse Mucha
Author
Publisher
Skira
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The mission of art is to express each nation's aesthetic values in accordance with the beauty of its soul. The mission of the artist is to teach people to love that beauty. Alphonse Mucha Alphonse Mucha was an extraordinarily prolific and versatile artist who made his mark in the diverse fields of design including posters, jewelery, interior decoration, theater, and packaging and product designs as well as in painting, book illustration, sculpture,...
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of Vincenzo Peruggia, the Italian immigrant who committed the greatest little-known art theft in history. For more than 30 years, writer/director Joe Medeiros was obsessed with finding out Peruggia's true motive. So with the help of researchers, art experts and Celestina Peruggia's children Silvio and Graziella, Medeiros and his team embarked on an epic journey leading them to the Louvre, to Peruggia's hiding place in Paris, to Florence....
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton and his sister Thea search for a secret map hidden beneath a famous painting and soon uncover some amazing clues.
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