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81) Hello stranger
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2023.
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English
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"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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Hailey helps shop with her artist uncle. This B-level story uses decodable text to raise confidence in early readers. The book features long "a" sounds and uses a combination of sight words and long-vowel words in repetition to build recognition. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text.
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Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.
Nora Eldridge is a reliable, but unremarkable, friend and neighbor, always on the fringe of other people’s achievements. But the arrival of the Shahid family—dashing Skandar, a Lebanese scholar, glamorous Sirena,
84) Vulnerabilia
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Jonathan Hernández nos presenta una colección de imágenes sobre uno de los productos más abundantes de la era de las masas: el papel impreso. El mundo contemporáneo sería incomprensible sin esa sutil revolución del papel que dio palabras a las masas. Sin embargo, pese a esta milenaria vocación protagónica, el papel impreso va cediendo su lugar, en nuestros días, a los medios electrónicos, más veloces e intangibles. Cada imagen que nos...
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For years, saying that you want to make music professionally was seen negatively by society; everyone said that if you did not resign yourself to this being a hobby, you were doomed and that you would very definitely die of hunger since there is no fieldwork for musicians and becoming a superstar was practically impossible because you have to be in the right place and times. Fortunately, today the story is completely different, and the future for...
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Español
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La irrupción del expresionismo abstracto o pintura de acción en los años cuarenta trajo consigo un cambio sustancial en las interpretaciones habituales del arte moderno, métodos y criterios historiográficos y críticos. En este marco la obra de Jackson Pollock ocupa el lugar más destacado y muchos de los nuevos estudios le están dedicados. Cabe afirmar que en torno a ella se produjo un verdadero debate. En el presente libro se recogen algunos...
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Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer beauty of his work.
Divided into six sections, each beginning with an introductory conversation between Thompson and six well-known peers, including Bill Watterson, the book will present Thompson's illustration work,...
88) YHWH
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Experience the struggles and triumphs through addiction, recovery, love, and personal growth. With journal entries and artwork, you will be drawn into the mind of an artist.
Sean Aguailar is a transplanted creative who resides in Idaho. He loves to travel, create, and spend time with his family and close friends. Sean has been doing art for most of his and has been featured in multiple galleries through out the PNW.
Sean has pursued different art...
89) Be Art World
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Art has always reflected society with all its intricacies-culture, victories, fears, and ineffable joys. And now, here we stand, presenting to you the book "Be Art World." This book is our way of preserving moments, transforming memories into inspiration, and granting each reader the opportunity to sense the spirit of our time. Within the pages of this book, you'll have the chance to relive the incredible moments as we created exhibitions and contests,...
90) Transparencias
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Esta serie de imágenes repetidas sirvieron para armar una secuencia de dípticos que hablan sobre la memoria, sobre las maneras de ver, registrar y recordar. Cada imagen tiene su reverso; su lado B. Las tomas se repiten invariablemente, pero parecería que no por un sentido de perfección, sino de búsqueda. Este proyecto es un cuestionamiento sobre la repetición, una revisión de archivo y memoria.
En la era analógica, el fotógrafo nunca estaba...
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"From Selfies to Satire" by Aaron Vick is an extraordinary digital art collection that delves deep into the fusion of technology and personal expression. Each artwork, available exclusively on the Tezos blockchain, represents Vick's innovative use of AI and post-editing techniques to transform personal selfies into thought-provoking pieces. These artworks are not mere visual spectacles; they carry a profound satirical commentary on modern digital...
92) Klimt's Drawings
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This Art Book contains Foreword and annotated by Daniel Coenn reproductions of Gustav Klimt's drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Drawings played a major role in Gustav Klimt's artistic development. From sketches and preparations for oil paintings, to erotic drawings and portraits, the present book illustrates the full range and depth of Klimt's abilities as a draughtsman. Klimt's talent and brilliance as a draughtsman, however, was widely...
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In 1995, as Samuel Bak was working on a suite of twenty large paintings eventually entitled Landscape of Jewish Experience, Pucker Gallery reached out to scholar Lawrence L. Langer, who had recently edited Art from the Ashes: A Holocaust Anthology, to contribute to the monograph. His willingness to undertake this effort would open a vast experience for both Langer and Bak. For nearly thirty years, they have participated in a creative dance of images...
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"Nueva gráfica de Tenochtitlán", de Marco Rountree Cruz, plantea una gramática subversiva y le da cuerpo a una sintaxis plástica, en cuya sencillez radica la complejidad. El primer título de la colección HILO de Publicaciones Malaletra nos lleva a la formulación de una estética que guarda semejanzas con el montaje escénico, dándole claridad y reunión a la secuencia de un collage interpretativo.
En los trazos de estas imágenes, para los...
95) Adolescentes
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"Adolescentes" es el resultado de un ejercicio de memoria en el que Iván Krassoievitch transcribió, durante casi dos años, las letras de los discos que fueron importantes durante su adolescencia. Utilizando una máquina de escribir, dichas transcripciones siguen el orden en el que las canciones aparecían en los discos, superponiendo una canción sobre la siguiente. El resultado sobre papel Kraft son una serie de manchas negras y palabras sueltas,...
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A bareback rider's skirt ripples in the breeze, an acrobat bends his muscular limbs into a handstand, and a poodle obeys a clown brandishing a whip. The circus is in town! These kaleidoscopic visions from under the big top offer audiences a series of post-Impressionistic sideshows, courtesy of thirty-nine brilliant crayon drawings in the distinctive style of Toulouse-Lautrec. These scenes took place far from the artist's customary haunts, the bars...
97) New ink on life
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"Leaving a dependable job to apprentice as a tattoo artist was a drastic step after surviving breast cancer, but Cassie Whiteaker is nearly five years cancer-free. Nearly. She's not ready to go out on her own until she clears that all-important hurdle. Also off-limits are relationships and sex--something Cassie is sure she'll never want again. Struggling tattoo shop owner MJ Flores doesn't give a damn what people think, but losing Thorn & Thistle...
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2014.
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"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past. Years ago, a well-known expressionist painter named Jim Stegner shot a man in a bar. The man lived, Jim served his time, and he has learned to live with the dark impulses that sometimes overtake him. Jim enjoys a quiet life in the valleys of Colorado. He works...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. So when she was offered a commission to paint portraits of accomplished African Americans, she jumped at the chance. Writers, singers, political activists, and thinkers all posed for her. Now her portraits hang in Washington, D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery, where children of all...
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