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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Describes how Van Gogh's insomnia, possibly a symptom of mental or phyical illness, allowed him to view the night sky while everyone else was asleep and influenced how he saw the world around him.
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"This is what we long for: the profound pleasure of being swept into vivid new worlds, worlds peopled by characters so intriguing and real that we can't shake them, even long after the reading's done. In his earlier, award-winning novels, Dominic Smith demonstrated a gift for coaxing the past to life. Now, in The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, he deftly bridges the historical and the contemporary, tracking a collision course between a rare landscape...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well-known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many, many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artistuniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Yet as he was deploying thelurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured formsthat would subsequently make his...
4) Rembrandt
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life, works, and lasting influence of Rembrandt.
6) Rembrandt
Author
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
See the world through Vincent van Gogh's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces. Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them draw, sculpt, or paint the way they did? In this charming illustrated series, created in full collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can see what they saw, and be inspired to create your own artworks, too. In the pages of this book, What the Artist Saw:...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"To us, Van Gogh's paintings look utterly unique. His vivid palates and wildly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his--yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now, drawing on Van Gogh's own thoughtful and often poetic comments about the artists he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of his...
10) Rembrandt
Publisher
Getting to Know
Language
English
Description
Rembrandt van Rijn tells you in his own words the story of his own life and creative career in this lighthearted and informative look at one of the world's most famous artists.
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