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Publisher
Brilliance Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hrs. 13 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Fletcher finds her vacation in Italy interrupted by a pair of Italian gunmen who steal a painting off a church wall, killing a retired policeman in the process.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
France, 1939. At the dawn of World War II, Anne Guichard, a young archivist employed at the Louvre, arrives home to find her brother missing. While she works to discover his whereabouts, refugees begin flooding into Paris and German artillery fire rattles the city. Once they reach Paris, the Nazis will stop at nothing to get their hands on the Louvre's art collection. Anne is quickly sent to the Castle of Chambord, where the Louvre's most precious...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
354 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the parallel stories of nineteenth-century art patron Charles Ephrussi and his unique collection of 264 miniature netsuke Japanese ivory carvings, documenting Ephrussi's relationship with Marcel Proust and the impact of the Holocaust on his cosmopolitan family.
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
Lithographs, engravings, aquatints, and watercolors from the Tavern Restaurant, January 13-March 30, 1980 : catalog / compiled by Judith W. Hansen ; entry information from notes by John C. O'Connor and Ralph M. Yeager.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. Edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist...