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“howard kwon”

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  • Provenance

    by Howard Kwon ...
    The very last thing that Professor Sabine Simon Elsberg would ever have expected to see while visiting a small college in Brooklyn was the painting that had belonged to her family for hundreds of years, but which she had not seen since she was a child during the war. Although she had absolutely no idea why it had suddenly appeared nearly a half-century later and thousands of miles from where it ... Read more

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    Now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer specialised in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life in his home city of Delft. The artist’s reputation fell into obscurity after his death and it was not until the 19th century that his work was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 ... Read more

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  • The Forger's Spell

    A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

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  • Complete Paintings of Gustav Klimt (Delphi Classics)

    by Gustav Klimt, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 8 - Delphi Masters of Art
    The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt was a founding member of the Vienna Secession, whose celebrated paintings and murals are widely regarded as modern masterpieces of twentieth century art. The Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents ... Read more

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  • Gustav Klimt

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    by Daniel Coenn ...
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    Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Gustav Klimt drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Drawings played ... Read more

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  • Marc Chagall

    by Jonathan Wilson ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesNovelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall’s work addresses these transforming events, but his ambivalence about his role as a Jewish artist adds an intriguing wrinkle to common assumptions ... Read more

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  • The Bauhaus Group

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    Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography).The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, ... Read more

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  • MFAA: The History of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Program (Also Known as Monuments Men)

    by Howard Brinkley ...
    The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million European Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. The horrors of the Holocaust have documented been many times. Even those that were not killed, mutilated, or starved in concentration camps were stripped of their citizenship and their identities. The Nazis did not stop there, though. Hitler, in his quest to build an empire, planned and executed the ... Read more

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  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Book Analysis)

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    by Bright Summaries ...
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    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Unbearable Lightness of Being with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, an intricate, cyclical novel which charts the lives of Tomas, a successful surgeon, his wife Tereza, his lover Sabina, and Sabina’s lover Franz. The narrative skilfully ... Read more

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  • The Last Vermeer

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    Now a major motion picture starring Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer* is a revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger—a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush—and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.It’s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge ... Read more

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  • Chagall

    by Victoria Charles ...
    Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did not stop Chagall from later joining that famous school founded by the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts and directed by Nicholas Roerich. Chagall moved to Paris in 1910. The city was ... Read more

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  • Kandinsky

    by Mikhaïl Guerman ...
    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works ... Read more

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