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In this posthumous collection of John Updike's art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed "Just Looking "(1989) and "Still Looking" (2005), readers are again treated to "remarkably elegant essays" ("Newsday") in which "the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges" ("The New York Times Book Review"). " Always Looking "opens with "The Clarity of Things," the Jefferson...
62) London
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London is one of the world’s most important megacities. It has long attracted people from all over the globe, as well as migrants from within the U.K., and continues to do so today. This program explores some of London’s history and presents a range of information regarding its geography, economy, labor market, and standard of living in the 21st century.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Parmigianino’s “Portrait of a Young Woman,” completed circa 1540 and housed in the Art History Museum in Vienna.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores John Everett Millais’ “Ophelia,” completed 1852 and housed in the Tate Gallery in London.
67) The raven
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Intense illustrations bring the classic poem to a new generation of readers.
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"By the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was deeply impacting gay and lesbian communities in America, and disinformation about the disease was running rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury was formed, to create graphics and media that campaigned against corporate greed, government inaction, and public indifference to AIDS. In It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful, writer...
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Presents an illustrated, chronological history of art from ancient times to the modern era. Highlights the characteristics of different artists, movements, and works of art, and includes hundreds of full-color images, biographical sketches of artists, key events in each time period, timelines, and a glossary of terms.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Marc Chagall’s “Promenade,” completed in 1917 and housed in the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Jean Metzinger’s “At the Cycle-Race Track,” completed in 1914 and housed in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Lyonel Feininger’s “Bird Cloud,” completed in 1926 and housed in The Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge.
73) The museum
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A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
74) Plus Ça Change
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Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series with the dramatic story of French art, a story of the most powerful kings ever to rule in Europe, with their glittering palaces and astoundingart to go in them. He also reveals how art emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, between rulers and a people who didn't always want to be ruled. Starting with the first great revolution in art, the invention of Gothic architecture,...
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld’s “The Family of John the Baptist with the Family of Christ,” completed in 1817 and housed in New Masters Gallery in Dresden.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Giulio Romano’s “The Virgin and Child with the Infant John Baptist,” completed circa 1523 and housed in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” completed in 1656 and housed in the National Prado Museum in Madrid.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World,” completed in 1948 and housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Peter Paul Rubens' “The Garden of Love,” completed circa 1633 and housed in the National Prado Museum in Madrid.