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2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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A speculative portrait of the intrepid and too little known British Columbian painter Emily Carr (1871-1945). Awareness of Carr's extraordinary life and unprecedented paintings of Canada's magnificent western wilderness and the carvings and totem poles of the region's native peoples is increasing thanks to renewed appreciation for Canada's Group of Seven, a circle of male painters also committed to celebrating their country's pristine natural beauty....
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Renoir's masterpiece depicts a gathering of real friends enjoying a summer Sunday on a caf`e terrace along the Seine near Paris. A wealthy painter, an art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a celebrated actress, and Renoir's future wife, share this moment of la vie moderne, a time when social constraints were loosening and Paris was healing after the Franco-Pressian War. Parisians were bursting with a desire for pleasure and a yearning...
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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Eighteen-year-old Artemisia Gentileschi, having ruined her reputation by making a public accusation of rape against her art teacher, enters into an arranged marriage in post-Renaissance Italy and moves with her husband to Florence where her talent blossoms, bringing fame and conflict into her life.
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