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Andy Warhol, 365 takes

the Andy Warhol Museum collection
2004
Presents a collection of three hundred sixty-five full-color illustrated reproductions of Andy Warhol's work from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

The Illustrated timeline of art history

a crash course in words & pictures
2006
A descriptive, illustrated time line that chronicles the story of art throughout the world from prehistoric times to the late twentieth century.

The artist's palate

cooking with the world's great artists
2003
A collection of 129 favorite personal recipes from eighty-nine of the world's most famous artists throughout history.

The sphinx on the table

Sigmund Freud's art collection and the development of psychoanalysis
2006
Examines Sigmund Freud's extensive collection of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquities and explores what those collections reveal about the man and his beliefs.

Modern art

a very short introduction
2005
Presents an introduction to modern art, including information on its history, key ideas, the avant-garde, modern media, postmodernism, art dealers, and more.

Art history

a very short introduction
2004
Presents an introduction to the study of art history, considering the question of what art history is, and discussing how art history is written, the importance of the gallery or museum, the relationship between art and thought, the idea and meaning of art, and the different media and techniques used to produce art.

Lady with an alien

an encounter with Leonardo da Vinci
2005
A young boy, Mario Ravelli, develops a unique relationship with the great painter and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, particularly because Mario is a time traveler from the year 2523 A.D.

The spirit catchers

an encounter with Georgia O'Keeffe
2004
During the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Parker finds himself homeless and traveling across New Mexico's desert, when a shepherd leads him to the artist Georgia O'Keeffe who teaches him photography and gives him a new perspective on life.

Winslow Homer

an American vision
2006
A critical survey of nineteenth-century American artist Winslow Homer that chronicles his life and presents all his major paintings as well as several lesser-known woodcuts and etchings.

Art

2005
Presents a full-color illustrated field guide to painting, sculpture, major artists and styles, and more; and examines the history of art from 2000 BCE to contemporary styles of the modern era.

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