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Arts, dying, thriving, of just hanging onEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: "As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 EDSPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.73 PROSummary: A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world. Presenting a more expansive and inclusive history of sculpture, Great Women Sculptors surveys the work of more than 300 trailblazing artists from over 60 countries, spanning 500 years from the Renaissance to the present day. Organized alphabetically, each artist is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phaidon Press Limited
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Summary: "The previously untold story of a little-known WWII Allied division whose mission was to track down European art and treasures that had been looted by the Nazis at Hitler's command"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 EDSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars EdselEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Describes two Americans in Italy--one an artist, the other a scholar--who tracked down and protected historic artwork worth billions by Michelangelo, Donatello, Titian, Caravaggio, and Botticelli in advance of the approaching Nazi army in 1943.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5345 EDSClooney, George
Summary: An allied group, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program, are given the task of finding and saving pieces of art before they are destroyed by Hitler during World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PG-13Summary: The Middle Kingdom was a time of unprecedented splendor, as regional potentates were lavished with rewards and buried in a style befitting royalty. Tomb 10A was prepared for one such potentate, and its treasures survived World War I, a ship's fires, and nearly a century of basement storage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MFA Publications 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709 SECEdsel, Robert M.
Summary: Edsel provides an astonishing account of a little known American effort to save Italy's vast store of priceless monuments and art during World War II. While American warriors were fighting the length of the country, other Americans were courageously working alongside to preserve the irreplaceable best of Italy's culture.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 EDSKirkpatrick, Sidney.
Summary: Tells the riveting true story of how an American college professor turned Army sleuth recovered cherished symbols of Hitler's Thousand-Year Reich before they could become a rallying point in the creation of a Fourth and equally unholy Reich.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.531 KIRWilliams, Jake
Summary: The award-winning author and illustrator behind Darwin's Voyage of Discovery and Really Remarkable Reptiles turns his attention to the Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a master of art, architecture, engineering, mathematics and more. Discover his relationship with the natural world, his futuristic inventions and the breadth of his artistic skill in this spellbinding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pavilion Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEONagy, Clinton
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Utah Press 2009
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.04 SPLMarek, Walter
Contents: Springtime of youth -- Shadows of war -- Circle closes -- Abduction & escape -- Refugee priest -- Social revolution -- Into the arms of America -- Priesthood -- Spiritual son -- Oratitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SMD Books 2005
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 921 MAREK, WALTER MARSummary: Thanks to the efforts of dedicated visionaries, there is an intergenerational learning experience spreading across the country. This fine arts forum invites the creators and supporters of outstanding school and community programs to take center stage. Together they share the positive impact the programs are having on students and the public at large, promoting art education and helping to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Patton, Sharon F.
Summary: Discusses African American folk art, decorative art, photography, and fine arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 PATBurroughs, Lea.
Summary: Using books as the backbone of the work, the author suggests plentiful ways to introduce children to the fine arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 372.5 BURSummary: Art in America is a fully illustrated fine arts journal designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other interested consumers who long for the latest news in the art world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F.F. Sherman 1939
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12 available in Magazines - previous years, Call number: 2022-03Call number: 2022-04
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6 available in Magazine, Call number: 2023-Winter
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8 available in Magazine, Call number: 2023-01Call number: 2023-03
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Summary: Brooklyn based artist Vik Muniz grew up poor in Brazil. This film follows him as he returns to Rio de Janeiro, specifically to Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden." The world's largest landfill, it receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage. "We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials," says Tião, a catadore, or trash picker who thinks of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Almega Projects 2011
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WASSummary: Produced in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition of the same name, this lively program explores the evolution of late-20th-century ceramics. Using interviews and myriad examples of their works, leading figures in the field, including Ruth Duckworth, Wayne Higby, John Mason, Ron Nagle, Otto Natzler, Richard Shaw, and Peter Voulkos, discuss such major themes as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Duncan, Arne
Summary: Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in DC--How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379 DUNSummary: As cuts in federal and state funding continue to erode support for public school fine arts programs and field trips, opportunities for children to experience the visual arts, music, dance, and theater are disappearing. In this documentary, Kerry Bennington, of the Krasl Art Center, and other concerned experts trace the evolution of the arts in America and enter into the debate over whether the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Contents: Mr. Bojangles (Remastered) (3:34) -- Some Of Shelly's Blues (2002 Remastered) (3:11) -- Ripplin' Waters (2002 Remaster) (5:52) -- An American Dream (Remastered) (3:33) -- Make A Little Magic (2001 Remaster) (3:55) -- Fire In The Sky (Remastered) (3:56) -- Shot Full Of Love (2001 Remaster) (3:24) -- Dance Little Jean (2001 Remaster) (3:12) -- When It's Gone (2:33) -- Baby's Got A Hold On Me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CMCapNash (N91) 2013
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Summary: "Afro-Atlantic Histories" brings together a selection of more than 400 works and documents by more than 200 artists from the 16th to the 21st centuries that express and analyze the ebbs and flows between Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. The book is motivated by the desire and need to draw parallels, frictions, and dialogues around the visual cultures of Afro-Atlantic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DelMonico Books, ARTBOOK/D.A.P. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704.03 AFRBortins, Leigh A.
Summary: "Children are natural learners, and building a core foundation at an early age is critical to their success both educationally and in life. Yet academic excellence is lacking in many school systems throughout the country. In this book, education expert and author Leigh A. bortins incoroprates the best ideas from the ancients and gives parents the tools to revive classical learning"--Page 4 of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 370.11 BORSchiff, Thomas R.
Summary: "In sweeping tableaux, photographer Thomas R. Schiff presents, America's most important art museums, using breathtaking photographs that compels us to revisit historic and modern cultural institutions and their storied rooms in a genuinely new light. Schiff skillfully combines his love of photography and architecture and profiles museums of all sizes and stripes across the country, showcasing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2019