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Van Gogh by Michael Sanders
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ready to Paint the Masters
Shows how to reproduce three famous paintings by Vincent Van Gogh, using step by step photographs and instructions and by using acrylic paints. This book contains six tracings for readers to pull out and transfer on to the painting surface and a bonus tracing. It includes two projects that show how to p ...Show more
Van Gogh: Masters of Art by RAPELLI ANNA PAOLA
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Tracing the arc of van Gogh's career, this volume presents his portraits and self-portraits, landscapes, and haunting interiors. Readers will learn details of van Gogh's complicated personal life including his struggles with mental illness and his close but difficult relationship with his brother, Th ...Show more
Vasily Kandinsky by Hajo Duchting
Category: Art and Design | Series: The Great Masters of Art
Vasily Kandinsky was one of the first painters of abstract art and a founding member of the Blue Rider movement. Although he trained as a lawyer, Kandinsky abandoned this career path to devote himself to art, both as a creator and an influential teacher and theorist at the Bauhaus. Over time, Kandinsky' ...Show more
Vermeer: Masters of Art by Maurizia Tazartes
Category: Art and Design | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
A seventeenth century Dutch painter who lived his entire life in Delft, Vermeer is renowned for his masterly use of light. Only a very small number of Vermeer's paintings are known to exist. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full page spreads of masterpieces as well as high ...Show more
Vermeer: Masters of Art by ALEXANDER ADAMS
Category: Art | Series: Masters of Art Ser.
Filled with brilliant reproductions and engaging texts and reflecting the latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to the most celebrated painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Highlighted by domestic scenes and witty allegories that fuse the ordinary with ...Show more
Vincent by Barbara Stok
Category: Fiction | Series: Art Masters Ser.
This graphic biography documents the brief and intense period of creativity Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) spent in Arles, Provence, in southern France. Here van Gogh dreams of setting up an artists' studio--a haven where he and his friends can paint together. But attacks of mental illness leave the paint ...Show more
Vincent Van Gogh by Klaus Fussmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: The Great Masters of Art
Vincent van Gogh's career lasted just a decade, but in this short time he created more than two thousand paintings, including some of the most famous and influential works of Western art. He was also prolific writer, penning hundreds of letters to his brother, Theo, that form an unusually rich record of ...Show more
Wave of the Sea Dragon (Dragon Masters #19) by Tracey West; Matt Loveridge (Illustrator)
Category: Teen/Young Adult Fiction | Series: Dragon Masters Ser.
Drake, Bo, and Opeli seek the help of a powerful Sea Dragon in the latest adventure in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling series Pick a book. Grow a Reader This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, ...Show more
Way of the Ninja (Lego Ninjago: Reader #1) by Greg Farshtey
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
Masters of Spinjitzu: a new force to save the world! The legend of Spinjitzu begins. . . . The son of a blacksmith, Kai's only dream is to master his father's craft. Until the day an army of skeleton warriors raids his villages and kidnaps his sister, Nya. Kai's only hope of rescuing his sister lies wit ...Show more
Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: Science Masters
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why do humans have sex any day of the month or year, including when the female is pregnant, beyond her reproductive years, or between her fertile cycles? Why are human females one of the few mammals to go through menopause? Human sexuality se ...Show more
Willem de Kooning by Corinna Thierolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\Great Masters of Art Ser.
In 1926, a young Willem de Kooning (1904-97) travelled from the Netherlands to the United States on a British freighter, hiding in the machine room without papers. The young art student eked out a living painting houses, signs, and facades before he was able to eventually dedicate himself entirely to pa ...Show more