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Description not available.Explores Raphael's life, his influences and contemporaries, and some of his most famous paintings, including The Sistine Madonna . AUTHOR: Mike Venezia
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Monet's Years at Giverny by Charles S. Moffett, Daniel Wildenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff
This highly acclaimed book is the first to illustrate the works that Claude Monet painted at Giverny, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. Here is a collection of the most beloved art ever created, including examples of beautiful Haystacks, Poplars, Morning on the Seine, Japanese Footbridge, and Water Lilies series. Included are a lively account of the painters' life at Giverny by Daniel Wildenstein and marvelous black-and-white photographs of Monet and his house and garden. AUTHOR: Charles S. Moffett, Daniel Wildenstein, Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Whanki Museum by Hong-Bin Kang, Oscar R. Ojeda
The Whanki Museum, in Seoul, Korea, is a museum that pays tribute to the contemporary Korean painter, Kim Whanki. Commissioned by the Whanki Foundation, Kyu Sung Woo was chosen because of his friendship with Whanki and his respect for his art. The museum displays Whanki`s work along with other contemporary artists in gallery spaces and includes gardens, a cafe, lectures halls, and studios. Carefully sited to explore the themes of moon, mountains, clouds, rocks, and trees found so often in Whanki`s art, it is located in a ravine in a residential area in Seoul, faces Mount Puk-asan to the south and Mount Inwangsan to the west. It is this integration between nature and artwork that makes the spectacular museum so significant, this and more is shown in this beautiful volume. AUTHOR: Hong-Bin Kang, Oscar R. Ojeda
PUBLISHER: Rockport Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Twelve Plays of Christmas by Sheryl J. Anderson
Of varying lengths and addressing a variety of messages, these humorous and insightful plays emphasize the power of simplicity in the Christmas season. These dramas may be simple or elaborate productions, and all roles may be portrayed by actors of either sex and of any age. This baker`s dozen includes a bonus drama for Epiphany! AUTHOR: Sheryl J. Anderson
PUBLISHER: Judson Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | More Space by Fay Sweet
For real-life situations in real-life housing, here are solutions to the eternal problem of not enough space--for storage, living, and entertaining. AUTHOR: Fay Sweet
PUBLISHER: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Modern Bodies
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of dance as an art of and from America. Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued over their aesthetic innovations, to which they assigned great meaning. Their innovations, however, went beyond aesthetics. While modern dancers devised new ways of moving bodies in accordance with many modernist principles, their artistry was indelibly shaped by their place in society. Modern dance was distinct from other artistic genres in terms of the people it attracted: white women (many of whom were Jewish), gay men, and African American men and women. Women held leading roles in the development of modern dance on stage and off; gay men recast the effeminacy often associated with dance into a hardened, heroic, American athleticism; and African Americans contributed elements of social, African, and Caribbean dance, even as their undervalued role defined the limits of modern dancers' communal visions. Through their art, modern dancers challenged conventional roles and images of gender, sexuality, race, class, and regionalism with a view of American democracy that was confrontational and participatory, authorial and populist. Modern Bodies exposes the social dynamics that shaped American modernism and moved modern dance to the edges of society, a place both provocative and perilous.
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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