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Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
iv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Professor Robert Greenberg can show how viewers can learn to understand, appreciate, even to love, opera in just 32 lectures. With the knowledge of opera from this course, understand how opera is a unique marriage of words and music in which the whole is far greater than its parts.
Author
Language
English
Description
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication. Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-mannered, slovenly John Thorpe, and by her real love...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This lecture integrates elements including color, line, shape, composition, light, symbolism, point of view, and focal point. Using the viewing tools you've developed, look deeply at four diverse masterpieces, including a sculpture by Thorvaldsen, a "vanitas" still life by Van Oosterwyck, a lithograph by Bonnard, and a painting by Van der Weyden.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Discover the properties of line, another essential element of art, as "descriptive" (describing reality) or "expressional" (conveying feeling). Learn about the use of geometric lines, implied lines, and directional lines within a composition. Also, study the compelling, psychological use of line in Picasso's works, Seurat's "The Circus", and in key Modern and Expressionist works.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Examine geometric and "organic" shapes in painting and sculpture and the crucial relationship of figure to ground and mass to space. Then, explore the illusionistic use of shading, shadows, and overlapping shapes in Caravaggio's and Friedrich's works, and the compositional power of shapes in paintings such as Matisse's "Dance" and Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam".
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In canvases of Millet, Courbet, and Manet, observe the Realist ideals of honesty, simplicity, and descriptive colors in revealing contemporary experience. Then, explore the phenomenon of Impressionism, highlighting Renoir, Monet, and Degas - their fascination with natural light, quest to capture the moment, and iconic subject matter of middle-class leisure life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The richness of signs (signifiers) in art includes the use of symbols, icons, and indexes as they reveal layers of meaning. See how, in different historical eras, symbolic associations change over time, how icons visually represent a subject, and how indexes exhibit direct connections with the thing signified.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In examining the diverse functions and types of portraits, study the important elements of facial presentation and the subject's position and gaze with relation to the viewer and the pictorial space. See how Rembrandt added dramatic power to his group "corporation" portraits, and how David carefully rendered Napoleon in symbolic terms.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Across the centuries, self-portraits fascinatingly reveal the changing role of the artist. Follow this progression, from Renaissance painters subtly placing themselves within large compositions, to self-portraiture's emergence as a major form of self-revelation, noting many dramatic and colorful traditions within the form.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they're playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet, or singing. Music can help express one child's feelings-or it can bring a whole community together.
15) Composed
Publisher
Bed Rock Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (78 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Many of us are terrified of public speaking, let alone performing! COMPOSED explores the many ways we experience and face performance anxiety, through the experiences of professional musicians. Faced with the judgment of peers, the audience, and themselves, these musicians spend years trying to understand and overcome their anxiety. Through their stories we find that we are not alone with our fear of failure.
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
Invites the reader to take a closer look at paintings by such artists as Botticelli, Bruegel, Velasquez, Copley, and Van Gogh, providing information about the artist, subject, and medium of each work of art.
17) Art is
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text and photographs show that art is much more than just what can be hung on a wall or set on a pedestal.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (278 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hosted by curator and author of the bestselling book of the same name, Justin Paton takes viewers on an adventure through museums and artists' workshops in hopes of providing a fresh and exciting new perspective on how to truly appreciate and better understand the world of painting.
19) Francisco Goya
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
27 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the Spanish artist, describing and giving examples of his art.
20) Animals observed
Author
Series
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
29 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents artistic images of a variety of animals from around the world and comments on them.
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