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1) Dead ringer
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Philadelphia attorney Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, and she takes a professional risk when she changes into a class action lawsuit that could make or break her career. Then her wallet goes missing, and someone posing as her creats havoc around town.
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In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th-century. The general credo associated with the aesthetic attitude of Classicism was that art had to be rational and therefore morally better. Neoclassicists also believed that art should be cerebral, not sensual and therefore...
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"A fun and fact-filled introduction to the dismissed Black art masters and models who shook up the world. Elegant. Refined. Exclusionary. Interrupted. The foundations of the fine art world are shaking. Beyoncé and Jay-Z break the internet by blending modern Black culture with fine art in their iconic music video filmed in the Louvre. Kehinde Wiley powerfully subverts European masterworks. Calls resonate for diversity in museums and the resignations...
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2014.
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In the fascinating Great artist series, we investigate some of the best artists in history - examining their influence, style and what exactly made them so unique. In this double package we examine two Dutch masters who forever stamped their ability on European art; Rembrandt, an extraordinary portraitist and visual diarist of life, and Vermeer, master of light and colour, recognised as one of the great painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
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[2021]
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"This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Exploring how, against the odds, outsiders on the margins of European high culture, suddenly became the Old Masters' new masters and the modernists' champions"--
7) Surrealism
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"Surrealism is a style in the visual arts and modern literature which appeared in Paris after the First World War. The Surrealists sought to eliminate logic along with the boundaries between the Normal and the Fantastical, in order to create a better world through free associative play, using the forces of the subconscious. Their pictures are characterized by a spatial, material, non-abstract manner of painting with an almost photographic sharpness...
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2018.
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English
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A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements.--Amazon.com
"A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements. Most surveys of the history of art are divided into historic periods, artistic schools, and movements. In reality, movements and artists'...
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[2002]
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"Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is one of Austria's finest Expressionist artists. His paintings are renowned and admired for their vivid colour and restless energy. This book focuses on the early portraits that Kokoschka painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I."--Amazon.
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1997.
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A thematic account of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe, exploring the impact of the concepts of national and supra-national identity upon the visual arts, and examining the debate over whether the art world was dominated by commissions and patrons, or consumerism.
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[2019]
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Travel through time and discover Europe's most iconic paintings, sculptures, and historic buildings. From Venus to Versailles, Apollo to David, and Mona Lisa to The Thinker, Rick Steves and co-author Gene Openshaw will have you marveling, learning, and laughing, one masterpiece at a time. Whether you're traveling to Europe or just dreaming about it, this book both stokes your wanderlust and kindles a greater appreciation of art, with historical context...
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