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The career of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was a great triumph in the history of Spanish art. The son of a peasant craftsman from rural Aragon had, by the age of forty, infiltrated the most exclusive aristocracy in Western Europe, becoming court painter to the Kings of Spain. But behind his glittering portrayals of the royal family and figures of state was another world of beggars, madmen, convicts, giants and cripples: the inhabitants of the artist`s private obsessions. His art expressed the full range of human experience and he became known in his lifetime as `the philosophical painter`. Goya`s mastery of almost every graphic technique, from tapestry cartoons to lithographs, gave him a range of pictorial clarity and expression that was at once profound, diverting and subversive. Sarah Symmons` fascinating new book places Goya within the context of his Spanish heritage, traces the immense influence of his work throughout Europe and considers the continued relevance of his art in the twentieth century. She draws on the most recent scholarship and on rediscovered works to create a comprehensive portrait of his most complex and enigmatic of artists. AUTHOR: Sarah Symmons
PUBLISHER: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Take a Look, It's in a Book by Christopher Hornsby, Ronnie Krauss
A behind-the-scenes exploration of how the television program Reading Rainbow is made. Readers will learn how the producers, writers, directors, and actors work together to create this television program that celebrates books and reading. Illustrated with color photographs. AUTHOR: Christopher Hornsby, Ronnie Krauss
PUBLISHER: Walker & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Home Sweet Home by Deborah Harding, Gerard C. Wertkin, Laura Fisher
One of the most common symbols in folk art is the house. This book explores its appeal throughout American history. AUTHOR: Deborah Harding, Gerard C. Wertkin, Laura Fisher
PUBLISHER: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Five Hundred Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader by Jennifer M. Lerch
A professional Hollywood reader explains how to write a screenplay that studio executives will want to produce. Her suggestions for developing character, tone, dialogue, and plot have been endorsed by script-reading agencies and are based on her personal experiences of reading, rejecting, and accepting scripts for over a decade. AUTHOR: Jennifer M. Lerch
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | JoSonjas Guide to Decorative Painting by JoSonja Jansen
Written by the premiere decorative painter of our time, this book is the mostcomplete decorative painting resource ever assembled in one volume. 250 colorillustrations. AUTHOR: JoSonja Jansen
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Hopper by Mark Strand
This study of Hopper's work is part of the Writers on Art series from Ecco Press. Mark Strand, whose poems move through a terrain similar to that portrayed by Hopper, approaches the painter's work with a fresh eye and presents a unique and powerful understanding of what makes the paintings so memorable and moving. AUTHOR: Mark Strand
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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