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2022.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME--Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts...
84) Aspiring artist
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Inspired by such art masters as Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, and Jackson Pollock, Nancy, who likes to use fancy words, dons her beret to create her own fabulous artwork.
85) Emily's art
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[2001]
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English
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Emily paints four pictures and enters one in the first-grade art contest, but the judge interprets Emily's entry as a rabbit instead of a dog.
86) Sky color
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Creatrilogy volume 3
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English
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"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
87) Michelangelo
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[2004]
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English
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Presents the life and work of Michelangelo and includes a section of works that illustrate the artist's development.
88) Grant Wood
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[1995]
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English
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Relates the artistic career of the Iowan who painted people, life, and customs of the American Midwest and whose style became known as Regionalism.
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Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 — 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth...
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"Claudia has always been the most outrageous kid in her class ... until Ashley Wyeth comes along. Ashley's really different--she wears hippie clothes, has six holes in her ears, and is the most fantastic artist Claudia has ever met. Ashley says Claudia has artistic talent, too. She thinks Claudia should spend more time on her "calling" and forget about the Baby-sitters Club: it's just a waste of time. The Baby-sitters are sick of Ashley Wyeth, and...
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People volume 484
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2022.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
當今世上最有創意的反抗者 回憶父親艾青,觀照自己的人生與藝術 以三代歷程透視當代中國 記述祕密監禁81天的經過 卡夫卡式的荒謬情境真實上演 作者親繪封面及55幅內頁素描 父親翻開《辭海》,閉上他的眼睛,他的手指摁在了「未」字上,說:就叫「未未」吧。 艾未未,對著中國權力中心比中指的藝術家,他的藝術行動總是切中社會脈動,用大膽的創意挑釁強權,解構文化,為弱勢發聲。其實,他的身世與中國近百年的歷史有著千絲萬縷的關係。...
93) Still life
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Delving into Mysteries
Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
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Know Your Neighbor: Cultivating Communities of Compassion
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...
96) Henri Rousseau
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[2002]
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English
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An introduction to the life and work of the nineteenth-century French artist Henri Rousseau.
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Recalls a working day in the life of Impressionist painter Claude Monet, when, so absorbed in his attempts to paint a rock formation on the French seashore, he didn't notice the tide coming in and was doused by a large wave, losing his canvas and paints in the process!
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