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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the romantic to the surrealist, there have been almost no end of works devoted to the unclothed human body. This series - presented by writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow - will examine those artworks, the societies that produced them...
63) The Amber Room
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her father dies under suspicious circumstances, Rachel Cutler finds everything she loves threatened by the rival quests of two art collectors who seek one of the world's greatest treasures, lost after the Second World War.
64) Quick and dirty
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 43
Language
English
Description
"When a slam-bang of a crime brings a beautiful new client into Stone Barrington's office, little does he know his association with her will pull him into a far more serpentine mystery in the exclusive world of art. It's a business where a rare find could make a career--and a collection--and mistakes in judgment are costly. And under its genteel and high-minded veneer lurks an assortment of grifters and malfeasants eager to cash in on the game. In...
Series
House document volume 91st Congress, 2nd session, no. 368
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
"Interleafing his own recollections with astute social commentary, Marshall Berman reveals how movies, graphic arts, literature, popular music, television, and, of course, the Broadway theater have reflected Times Square's voluminous light to illuminate a vast spectrum of themes and vignettes. Berman shows us Times Square as it is seen in Alfred Eisenstadt's iconic photography, the movies of Busby Berkeley, John Schlesinger, and Martin Scorsese, and...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a "vanishing race" before their "extermination"--his word. In the first six years of the 1830s, he created over six hundred portraits--unforgettable likenesses of individual chiefs, warriors, braves, squaws, and children belonging to more than thirty...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One of the contemporary art world’s most acclaimed mixed-media and performance artists, the masked Narcissister is the subject of this smart, sassy documentary that showcases her spectacle-rich approach to explorations of gender, racial identity and sexuality. Directed by the enigmatic artist herself, the film deconstructs her celebrated stage shows which combine dance, elaborate costumes, pop music hits, unabashed eroticism and heavy doses of humor....
71) #ArtOffline
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What happens to art in the Internet age? The philosophers, artists and exhibition makers in this documentary believe that endless reproduction liberates art from a muddled art market and an undemocratic exhibition circuit. Some critics wonder whether the urge for physical objects is really just a nostalgic fetishism. But aren't we losing something if the physical artworks disappears? Official Selection at the **International Film Festival Rotterdam**....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Saved! A century of art for everyone celebrates the work of the National Art Collections Fund (the Art Fund) during its first one hundred years. Since1903, the Art Fund has helped museums and galleries in he United Kingdom acquire more than half a million works of art. Ten of the greatest artworks bought with NACF help, among them Velasquez's 'Rokeby Venus' and the Beckett Casket, are celebrated by curators and guests including author Ben Okri, broadcasters...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The art of Aboriginal Australia is celebrated in Dreamings as we journey into the sacred heartland of Australia to see traditional artists at work. The artists talk of their work, its association with the land and its spiritual connection with their people, the animals and plants. The film explores the meanings behind the works, from acrylic dot paintings of the Central Desert to cross-hatched bark paintings and burial poles of Northern Australia,...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sent to Zurich, Switzerland, to restore a painting owned by a reclusive millionaire banker, art expert and sometime Israeli agent Gabriel Allon discovers his would-be employer murdered and finds himself back in the espionage game.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art. As a beginning she studied sculpture, but in the mid-1960s she started exploring new media, and became one of the most influential artists. We followed her work on her latest installation and performance, "Reanimation" which she created for documenta(13) in 2012. Inspired by the novel "Under the Glacier" by the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness, she created a video installation piece, mixing footage...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dulwich Picture Gallery is England's first purpose-built public art gallery. Designed by Sir John Soane, the influential building holds one of the world's finest Old Master collections including great works by Poussin, Rubens, Canaletto, Reynolds and Gainsborough. This film goes behind the scenes at the gallery, and offers an insider's view of a vibrant working world. Included are the restoration of Rembrandt's glorious Girl at a Window, exhibition...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Put your knowledge of value into practice, beginning with still lifes of white objects on white backgrounds drawn in a broad palette of light to dark. Learn to see a color’s value as distinct from its hue and saturation. Realize a range of value-based projects, from drawings combining interior and outdoor spaces to portraits, full-figure drawings, and drawings translating color to value..
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