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Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk
Misty's husband, a carpenter named Peter, is in a coma after a suicide attempt. She herself is an artist who doesn't make art; instead, she's a waitress at the hotel on the beautiful but touristy island where she lives with her preadolescent daughter. Then, oddly, she becomes ill--and starts to paint. And can't stop.
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Luncheon of the Boating Party
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Susan Vreeland
A bestselling author returns with a vivid exploration of one of the most beloved paintings in history: Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party."
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The Empress File
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John Sandford
Computer hack Kidd always plays both sides against the middle. His partner LuEllen is his lover, a liar and a thief. When two major politicians secretly embezzle over a million dollars, Kidd and LuEllen decide to steal the stash--and cover their tracks by blowing the whistle on the dirty officials. "A fast-moving delight, with dialogue that ...
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The Forgery of Venus
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Michael Gruber
Chaz Wilmot's father is a famous illustration artist, in the vein of Norman Rockwell. Chaz has not only inherited his skill but has surpassed him and is in fact, an artistic genius. With a very ill son and an estranged wife whom he still loves but cannot provide for financially, Chaz accepts a commission to 'restore' an antique fresco in a ...
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Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
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Deborah Davis
Davis here reveals the identity of the haunting woman depicted in one of Sargent's most famous paintings, Madame X. STRAPLESS delves deep into the life of this woman, tracing her relationship with the famed painter and showing how this one picture would define her throughout her life.
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The Great Man
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Kate Christensen
Christensen pens a scintillating comedy of life among the avant-garde--of theuntidy truths, needy egos, and jostling for position behind the glossy facadeof artistic greatness--in this PEN Faulkner Award-winning story of a New YorkCity painter living in the heroic generation of the 1940s and 1950s.
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
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Jonathan Lopez
It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on ...
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The Danish Girl
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David Ebershoff
In the 1920s, Greta, an artist, marries Einar, who models for her--sometimes in women's clothes, which awakens his desire to actually become a woman. Greta supports him, and they find a surgeon who is willing to perform the operation--an event that, understandably, changes their relationship irrevocably. The novel is based on the true story of ...
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Moon & Sixpence
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W Somerset Maugham
Based on the life of Paul Gaugin, THE MOON AND SIXPENCE chronicles the life of Charles Strickland, a middle-class stockbroker who flees from his London life and family, first to Paris and then to a distant Pacific island. The narrator of the story, a writer, tracks down Strickland as a favor to his wife, a society woman known for her interest in ...
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Hanged Man's Song
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J Sandford
A professional thief named Kidd is appalled when his associate, Bobby, is murdered. Not only will Kidd miss Bobby, but he has also learned that the killer also stole Bobby's laptop computer--a computer which contains plenty of incriminating information about Kidd's own life of crime. On a mission to recover the computer and avenge Bobby's death, ...
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
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Sue Roe, Dpa
This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the world's most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes readers into the artists' homes, as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile, and precarious lives, as well as their canvasses and theories. 8-page color insert. 8-page B&W insert.
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Passion of Artemisia
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Susan Vreeland
The life of Artemisia Gentileschi, the celebrated woman painter of the Renaissance, and the first woman to be elected to the Accademia dell'Arte.
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Lust for Life
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Irving Stone
No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge, nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness, than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius, his life was an incessant struggle against poverty, discouragement, madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post ...
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Frida
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Jonah Winter
A picture book biography of artist Frida Kahlo. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Picasso
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Gertrude Stein
Intimate, revealing memoir of Picasso as man and artist by influential literary figure. Highly readable amalgam of biographical fact, artistic and aesthetic comments. One of Stein's most accessible works. 61 black-and-white illustrations. Index.
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Action Jackson
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Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jane Jordan, Robert Andrew Parker (Illustrator)
Written for younger readers, this biography of abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock focuses on the summer of 1950, the year he created the painting "Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. Named one of the Best Children's Books 2002 by Publishers Weekly. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Rainbow's End
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Irene Hannon
Thrown together during a storm, two wounded, lonely people learn that no one should live apart from other people--or from God's love and forgiveness. Original.
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Painters and Public Life in 18th-Century Paris
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Thomas E Crow
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N. C. Wyeth: A Biography
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David Michaelis
Newell Convers Wyeth was the grandfather of an American artistic dynasty that included his son Andrew and his grandson Jamie. Though Wyeth aspired to become an accomplished painter, he is remembered for his now-classic book illustrations. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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Renoir, My Father
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Jean Renoir
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of ...
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Andrew Wyeth: A Secret Life
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Richard Meryman
This biography of the American artist, Andrew Wyeth, covers the complex facets of his personal and professional life. It tracks his childhood of personal home tutors and the nuturing of his artistic talent under the watchful eye of his father, the children's book illustrator, N.C. Wyeth. Andrew Wyeth produced a substantial body of impressive works ...
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Andrew Wyeth: Autobiography
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Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Hoving (Adapted by)
In his autobiography, American realist painter Andrew Wyeth presents 138 of his tempera, drybrush, and water color paintings. Each reproduction is accompanied by his personal thoughts about it.
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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition
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Gai Wang, Kai Wang, Michael J Hiscox
Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial ...
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The Zen of Creative Painting: An Elegant Design for Revealing Your Muse
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Jeanne Carbonetti
Adopting an alternative approach to painting, this book shows how, through a combination of Eastern philosophy and Western techniques, artists may be empowered to produce more thoughtful and creative work. It demonstrates how this effect can be achieved by meditation and exercises.
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John James Audubon: The Making of an American
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Richard Rhodes
From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rhodes comes the first major biography of John James Audubon in 40 years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.
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