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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"January, 1940: After a bitter tragedy, young Australian woman Lucie and her French mother Yvonne are forced to leave home and seek help from the only family they have left-Lucie's uncle, Gerard. As the Second World War engulfs Europe, the two women find themselves trapped in German-occupied Paris, sharing a cramped apartment with the authoritarian Gerard and his extremist views. Drawing upon her artistic talents, Lucie risks her own safety to engage...
262) The parasol flower
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In contemporary Paris, Nancy Roach is fed up with her flagging dissertation research and flees to the English countryside to escape the mounting pressure from her dissertation advisor. There, she stumbles upon an illustration of "The Parasol Flower" in a nineteenth-century treatise, which draws her into the life of Hannah Inglis, a talented artist who slipped out of art history and into the Malaysian wilderness. Working from Hannah's letters and a...
263) The tattoo artist
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A famous female artist, Sara Ehrenreich, resurfaces after being lost to the world for thirty years. She has been living on a tiny island in the South Pacific for all this time, after running away to paradise with fellow artist Philip Ehrenreich. During there marriage Sara becomes more famous as an artist. Philip is killed during WWII, but Sara survives and becomes an expert on native tattooing and uses her own body as the canvas for her art. She now...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the life and struggles of the highly acclaimed artist, from her childhood in Wisconsin through her art education and rise to fame, to the American Southwest where she found never-ending inspiration.
265) Familiar motives
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Pub. Date
2017.
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321 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After learning that she comes from a family of witches--and adopting a familiar named Alistair--artist Anabelle Britton has made beautiful Portsmouth, New Hampshire her home. Together with her coven, this good witch is trying to put a stop to magic and murder most foul. When Anna takes Alistair to see local veterinarian Ramona Forsythe, they meet the most famous cat in town: Ruby the Attitude Cat, spokes-feline for a pet food brand. But then Ramona...
266) Beatrix Potter
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Details the life of the children's author who created such characters as Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck, and Tom Kitten.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne McFarland, a modern-day, thirty-something San Francisco artist in search of spiritual guidance, buys a corset in a Flagstaff resale botique--a purchase that results in her having to make a decision that will change her life forever. One hundred and thirty-five years earlier, in 1885, naïve Sally Sue Sullivan, a young woman from the Midwest, is kidnapped on a train by a handsome but dangerous bank robber. Held prisoner on a homestead in Northern...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
239 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Faith Ringgold is a critically acclaimed American artist whose unique methods of visual storytelling have documented and advanced art historical, feminist, and civil-rights movements for more than half a century. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, New York, this expansive survey covers work from all periods of her career, including her early civil rights-era figurative paintings, her graphic political protest posters, and her signature...
269) Frida Kahlo
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Frida Kahlo was a teenager, a terrible road accident changed her life forever. Unable to walk, she began painting from her bed. Her self-portraits, which show her pain and grief but also her passion for life and instinct for survival, have made her one of the most famous artists of the twentieth century. This story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back.
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Covers the years during which Friedl Dicker, a Jewish woman from Czechoslovakia, taught art to children at the Terezin Concentration Camp. Includes art created by teacher and students, excerpts from diaries, and interviews with camp survivors.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
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152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"For three decades, Ruth E. Carter has shaped the story of the Black experience on screen -- from the eighties streetwear of Do the Right Thing to the royal regalia of Coming 2 America. Her work on Marvel's Black Panther, bringing to life an African king and celebrating Afrofuturist women warriors, made her the first Black winner of an Oscar in costume design. In 2021, she became the second-ever costume designer to receive a star on the Hollywood...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
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English
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"Esther Markstrom and her artist mother have always been proud of their ancestor, painter Francisco Vella. They even run a small museum and gallery dedicated to raising awareness of his scandalously underappreciated work. But when Esther reconnects with her former art history professor, she finds her once-solid family history on shaky ground as questions arise about Vella's greatest work -- a portrait entitled The Lady with the Dark Hair. In 1879,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dual tale of two dynamic women from two very different eras searching for fulfillment. San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with sexy Sergio and has veered from her creative path. While visiting him in New York, she buys a pair of rhinestone shoes in an antique shop that spark her imagination and lead her on a quest to learn more about the shoes' original owner. Almost ninety years earlier, Clair Deveraux,...
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