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The devil in the gallery : how scandal, shock, and rivalry shape the art world / by Charney, Noah,author.(CARDINAL)336797; Kemp, Martin,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)157134;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Sympathy for the devil -- Scandal -- Shock -- Rivalry -- When the best artists are "bad.""This beautiful full-color book tells the stories of rivalries that not only stimulated and benefited the course of art, from ancient times to the present, but also help shape our narrative of art, lending it a sense of drama that it might otherwise lack"--
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Art and society.; Art publicity.; Artists; Scandals in art.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The scandal of pleasure : art in an age of fundamentalism / by Steiner, Wendy,1949-(CARDINAL)135609;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-237) and index.
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Philistinism.; Pleasure.; Liberalism.; Aesthetics, Modern; Religious fundamentalism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Framed [videorecording] / by Cottrell Boyce, Frank.(CARDINAL)343156; Davies, Samuel.; De Emmony, Andy.; Eve, Trevor,1951-; Myles, Eve,1978-; British Broadcasting Corporation.(CARDINAL)143648; PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259;
Producer, Richard Burrell ; director, Andy De Emmory.Trevor Eve, Eve Myels, Samuel Davies.When the National Gallery is flooded, the stuffy curator is forced to flee to the mountains of Wales, along with the paintings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets the townspeople.Not rated.DVD; stereo.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Made-for-TV movies.; Television adaptations.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Abandoned mines; Art; Families; Scandals in art;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Framed [videorecording] by Burrell, Richard.; Cottrell Boyce, Frank.Framed.; Davies, Samuel.; De Emmony, Andy.; Eve, Trevor,1951-; Myles, Eve,1978-; British Broadcasting Corporation.(CARDINAL)143648; PBS Distribution (Firm)(CARDINAL)309769; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259;
Producer, Richard Burrell ; director, Andy De Emmory.Trevor Eve, Eve Myels, Samuel Davies, Mari Ann Bull.When the National Gallery is flooded, the stuffy curator is forced to flee to the mountains of Wales, along with the paintings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets the townspeople.DVD, widescreen; stereo.; region 1, NTSC.
Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Made-for-TV movies.; Television movies.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Abandoned mines; Art; Families; Scandals in art;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Triumvirate : McKim, Mead & White : art, architecture, scandal and class in America's Gilded Age / by Broderick, Mosette.(CARDINAL)513504;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-554) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909.; Mead, William Rutherford, 1846-1928.; White, Stanford, 1853-1906.; McKim, Mead & White.; Architects;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The grandest Madison Square Garden : art, scandal, and architecture in Gilded Age New York / by Hinman, Suzanne.(CARDINAL)805997;
Includes bibliographical references and index.November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White - the country's most celebrated architect - was about to dedicate America's tallest tower, the final cap set atop his Madison Square Garden, the country's grandest new palace of pleasure. Amid a flood of electric light and fireworks, the gilded figure topping the tower was suddenly revealed - an eighteenth-foot nude sculpture of Diana, the Roman Virgin Goddess of the Hunt, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the country's finest sculptor and White's dearest pal. This book tells the remarkable story behind the construction of the 1890 Madison Square Garden and the controversial sculpture that crowned it. Set amid the magnificent achievements of nineteenth-century American art and architecture, the book delves into the fascinating private lives of the era's most prominent architect and sculptor and the nature of their intimate relationship. The author shows how both men pushed the boundaries of America's parochial aesthetic, ushering in an era of art that embraced European styles with American vitality. Situating the Garden's seminal place in the history of New York City and the entire country, this book brings to life a tale of architecture, art, and spectacle amid the elegant yet scandal-ridden culture of Gotham's decadent era.
Subjects: White, Stanford, 1853-1906.; Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907.; Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1890-1925); Architecture and society; Buildings;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Meade / by Benfey, Christopher E. G.,1954-(CARDINAL)174751;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A tea rose -- The prodigal -- Beecher's pockets -- Tristes tropiques -- At the hotel byron -- The prisoner of Chillon -- Birds of passage -- Covert flowers, hidden nests -- Transits of venus -- Foggy bottom -- A route of evanescence -- Florida.
Subjects: Art.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Literature and history; Literature and society; Women and literature;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A summer of hummingbirds : love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade / by Benfey, Christopher E. G.,1954-(CARDINAL)174751;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-277) and index.A tea rose -- The prodigal -- Beecher's pockets -- Tristes tropiques -- At the Hotel Byron -- The prisoner of Chillon -- Birds of passage -- Covert flowers, hidden nests -- Transits of Venus -- Foggy bottom -- A route of evanescence -- Florida.A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War. Benfey takes the seemingly arbitrary image of the hummingbird and traces its "route of evanescence" as it travels in circles to and from the creative wellsprings of the age: from the naturalist writings of abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson to the poems of his wayward pupil Emily Dickinson; into the mind of Henry Ward Beecher and within the writings and paintings of his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe. A Summer of Hummingbirds unveils how, through the art of these great thinkers, the hummingbird became the symbol of an era, an image through which they could explore their controversial (and often contradictory) ideas of nature, religion, sexuality, family, time, exoticism, and beauty.--From amazon.com.
Subjects: Art.; Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Twain, Mark, 1835-1910; Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Heade, Martin Johnson, 1819-1904; Women and literature; Literature and society; Literature and history;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The world of Whistler, 1834-1903 / by Prideaux, Tom,author.(CARDINAL)125916; Time-Life Books,issuing body.(CARDINAL)137698;
A Yankee-Doodle dandy -- American on the Thames -- Brotherhood of radicals -- Whistler's mother -- Triumph and turmoil -- A scandalous trial -- Veneration in Venice -- "Art for art's sake."Surveys the life, work and times of James McNeill Whistler, great 19th century American painter.
Subjects: Biographies.; Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903.; Painters; Art, Modern;
Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 15
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Chasing Vermeer / by Balliett, Blue,1955-(CARDINAL)353480; Helquist, Brett,illustrator.(CARDINAL)656404;
Three deliveries -- The letter is dead -- Lost in the art -- Picasso's lie -- Worms, snakes, and periwinkles -- The geographer's box -- The man on the wall -- A halloween surprise -- The blue ones -- Inside the puzzle --Nightmare -- Tea at four -- X the experts -- Flashing lights -- Murder and hot chocolate -- A morning in the dark -- What happens now? -- A bad fall -- The shock on the stairs -- A maniac -- Looking and seeing -- Twelves -- Help! -- The pieces.When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal. First book in the series featuring art sleuth friends Calder and Petra.Middle School.770LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated ReaderA Junior Library Guild selection.
Subjects: Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675; Art;
Available copies: 122 / Total copies: 144
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