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Chuck Close

a portrait in progress
Examines the life and career of painter Chuck Close, chronicling the development of his art, which is characterized by portraits of giant heads.

Evita

Frida
A two-DVD set that tells the true-life stories of Argentina's famous first lady, Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty to achieve fortune and fame, and artist Frida Kahlo and her controversial relationship with artist Diego Rivera and scandalous affairs.

David Hockney

Examines the work of artist David Hockney, discussing his paintings, sketches, photocollages, stage designs, fax drawings, and other projects.

Outsider art

mosaic murals : Isaiah Zagar, the vision, the process
Explores the work of Philadelphia mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, who has constructed reflective murals around the city in the spirit of "outsider art.".

Children in art

a century of change

Waste land

Explores Muniz's creative process as he fashions new works from what others have left behind, but it also profiles the people who live near Jardim Gramacho and make their living by sorting what's useful from what is not.

Stitches

a memoir--
A graphic novel that chronicles the life of American author and illustrator David Small, detailing his sickly childhood and teenage years, relationship with his parents, his cancer, and more.

The art of Romare Bearden

Traces the career of artist Romare Bearden from the 1940s through the 1980s, looking at his early paintings and watercolors, collages, and large-scale murals, and landscapes, and discussing how the places he lived influenced his work.

Leonardo da Vinci

genius of the Italian renaissance
Young readers may have seen reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and even some of his inventions, but there was much more to his genius. Leonardo was also a scientist and a sculptor. He loved the outdoors. This biography allows young readers to get to know Leonardo from his youth in the Italian countryside and then witness how his work as an adult won over noblemen and royalty who paid him for his art. Readers will be introduced to some of Leonardo's most famous and influential work and discover how it continues to influence today's art and science.

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