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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love--with a place, or a painting, or a person--and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss--from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Its a rare and secret profession, comprising a few dozen people around the world equipped with a mysterious mixture of knowledge and innate sensibility. Summoned to Swiss bank vaults, Fifth Avenue apartments, and Tokyo storerooms, they are entrusted by collectors, dealers, and museums to decide if a coveted picture is real or fake and to determine if it was painted by Leonardo da Vinci or Raphael. The Eye lifts the veil on the rarified world of connoisseurs...
65) Monet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the life of the Impressionist painter and analyzes some of his paintings.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
For many of us, classical music is something serious-something we study in school, something played by cultivated musicians at fancy gatherings. In Language of the Spirit, renowned music scholar Jan Swafford argues that we have it all wrong: classical music has something for everyone and is accessible to all. Ranging from Gregorian chant to Handel's Messiah, from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons to the postmodern work of Philip Glass, Swafford is an affable...
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Formats
Description
From Michelangelo's experiments with the composition of pigments made by monks in Florence, to Niccol ̤Machiavelli's defense of Florence against Julius's attacking forces bent on restoring the Medicis to power, Ross King presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixtenth-century Italy, as well as uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history.
74) Claude Monet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A biography of one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who captured the essence of light and color on his canvases.
75) Rembrandt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
Author
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Looking at music through the lives of great composers and their environment, from churches and cathedrals that produced the familiar sound of Gregorian chant, to Johann Sebastian Bach, the family man composing for the glory of God, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child prodigy, genius and prankster who wrote some of the finest music ever yet was buried in a pauper's grave.
80) Da Vinci
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.