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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
"This course examines the composition of Beethoven's string quartets chronologically, which frequently differs from the published numbering of the pieces. Our chronological examination allows us to follow th intellectual and creative development of a composer who internalized the genre as it existed to his time and then pushed it far beyond its boundaries"--From course scope.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
"This course examines the composition of Beethoven's string quartets chronologically, which frequently differs from the published numbering of the pieces. Our chronological examination allows us to follow th intellectual and creative development of a composer who internalized the genre as it existed to his time and then pushed it far beyond its boundaries"--From course scope.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
"This course examines the composition of Beethoven's string quartets chronologically, which frequently differs from the published numbering of the pieces. Our chronological examination allows us to follow th intellectual and creative development of a composer who internalized the genre as it existed to his time and then pushed it far beyond its boundaries"--From course scope.
3625) George Inness
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Surveys major works of George Inness, 19th century American landscape painter. Works include A bit of the Roman aqueduct; The Lackawanna Valley; St. Peter's, Rome; Clearing up; Approaching storm; Catskill Mountains; The Tiber below Perugia; Lake Nemi; The monk; Kearsarge village; Gray, lowery day; Winter morning, Montclair; October; Early autumn, Montclair; The clouded sun; Early morning, Tarpon Springs; and Sundown.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In 1915, African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Birth of a Movement features commentary from Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky (who created...
Pub. Date
[between 1900 and 1999?]
Language
English
Description
Woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs of a group of artists who banded together in 1905 to form Die Brucke, a movement dedicated to revitalizing German art. Work of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner is the subject of part 1. Part 2 contains a survey of prints by other Brucke artists such as Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Emil Nolde.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After the Second World War ended in 1945 the Expressionist Emil Nolde (1867-1956) came to symbolise the epitome of the modern German artist persecuted by the National Socialist regime. More works were confiscated from Nolde during the 'Degenerate Art' campaign than from any other artist, and no other artist's works were as prominently pilloried as Nolde's in the initial Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) shows that began travelling the country in 1937....
3632) Bruegel: the master
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his work have attained a legendary status in our collective consciousness. The most important Netherlandish painter and draughtsman of the 16th century had already achieved great fame during his own lifetime, but was largely forgotten until his rediscovery by art historians in the early 20th century. Just over forty paintings by Bruegel's own hand survive. His complex, multi-layered compositions, which draw on the earlier...
Pub. Date
between 1980 and 1989?
Language
English
Description
Although Whistler is well known as a painter, his graphics are of equal importance to his paintings. This program discusses Whistler's work in the etching medium, and describes the development of Whistler's style and techniques from his earliest French Set etchings of the 1850's through the images of Venice and Amsterdam done late in his career.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world...Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it follows them in their travels and exiles, the narrative describes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of passion and political conflict is now available in a richly documented and illustrated Norton Critical Edition. This edition of Antony and Cleopatra is based on the First Folio (1623), the only authoritative text of the play. The volume includes a preface, detailed explanatory annotations of the text, two maps, and visuals ranging from a silver tetradrachm (34 ace) to contemporary artwork inspired by the...
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