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Cave paintings to Picasso : the inside scoop on 50 art masterpieces / by Henry Sayre.

Summary:

Introduces fifty celebrated works of art, including King Tut's sarcophagus and Andy Warhol's paintings of Campbell's soup cans, with historical and interpretive information for each piece.

Record details

  • ISBN: 081183767X
  • ISBN: 9780811837675
  • Physical Description: 93 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2004]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Woman from Brassempouy -- Hall of Bulls -- Toreador Fresco -- Nebamun Hunting Birds -- Nefertiti -- Burial Container for the Organs of Tutankhamen -- Colossal Olmec Head -- Archilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game / Exekias -- She-Wolf -- Nike of Samothrace -- Moche Lord with a Feline -- The Horses of San Marco -- Book of Kells -- Easter Island Ancestor Figures -- The Bayeux Tapestry -- Early Spring / Guo Xi -- Romance of Lancelot -- Muhammad Placing the Black Stone on His Cloak -- The Effects of Good Government / Ambrogio Lorenzetti -- Bamboo / Wu Chen -- January / Les Très Riches Heures, Limbourg brothers -- Camera Picta / Andrea Mantegna -- Hundreds of Birds Admiring the Peacocks / Yin Hong -- Sight -- Primavera / Sandro Botticelli -- David / Michelangelo -- Mona Lisa / Leonard da Vinci -- The Small Cowper Madonna / Raphael -- Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels / Clara Peeters -- Jahangir in Darbar / Abul Hasan and Manohar -- Head of an Oba -- Mandan Battle Scene Hide Painting -- The Great Wave off Kanagawa / Katsushika Hokusai -- Fur Traders Descending the Missouri / George Caleb Bingham -- The Railroad / Edouard Manet -- Dance Class / Edgar Degas -- Little Girl in a Blue Armchair / Mary Cassatt -- The Umbrellas / Auguste Renoir -- Irises / Vincent Van Gogh -- Mahana no atua / Paul Gauguin -- Water Lily Pond / Claude Monet -- Improvisation 30 (Cannons) / Wassily Kandinsky -- Man with a Pipe / Pablo Picasso -- Sugar Cane / José Diego Maria Rivera -- The Migration of the Negro, No. 32 / Jacob Lawrence -- Nighthawks / Edward Hopper -- Convergence / Jackson Pollock -- Ladder to the Moon / Georgia O'Keeffe -- Big Campbell's Soup Can, 19 cents / Andy Warhol -- The Son of Man / René Magritte.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 3 82896.
Subject: Art appreciation > Juvenile literature.
Masterpiece, Artistic > Juvenile literature.

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  • 12 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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