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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bostonian Maura is beginning to feel settled in her new Irish home, just in time for summer tourist season to bring fresh business to her pub. But the first traveler to arrive is thirsty for more than just a pint of Guinness. Althea Melville is hot on the trail of a long-lost Van Dyck painting. Maura agrees to help Althea meet with the residents at the local manor house, the most likely location of the missing art. But when the manor's gardener is...
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Damaged, attacked, rejected, destroyed, transient - there are many ways that art can become lost. With work by Marcel Duchamp, Wassily Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Joseph Beuys, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread and Lucian Freud, this is a lively look at a often little considered aspect of contemporary art.
"Many assume that modern works of art are easily preserved; that their whereabouts can be readily established thanks to sophisticated documentation...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, Whitney Chadwick charts five intense, far-reaching female friendships among the surrealists to show how surrealism and the experiences of war, loss and trauma shaped individual women's transitions from beloved muses to mature artists. Her vivid account includes the fascinating story of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe's subversive activities in occupied Jersey, as well as the experiences of Lee Miller and Valentine...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After talking her way into a job with Dan Mansfield, the leading investigative reporter in Chicago, rising young journalist Jules Roth is given an unusual--and very secret--assignment. Dan needs her to locate a painting stolen by the Nazis more than 75 years earlier: legendary Expressionist artist Ernst Engel's most famous work, Woman on Fire. World-renowned shoe designer Ellis Baum wants this portrait of a beautiful, mysterious woman for deeply...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In order to exonerate the estranged son of a murdered World War II veteran, an aging police inspector must investigate a priceless relic to figure out which of five other suspects was willing to kill for such a valuable artifact.
Author
Series
Cafferty and Quinn novels volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A centuries-old bust of an evil, demonic man was stolen from a New Orleans grave. Its current owner shows up at Danni Cafferty's antiques shop, but before Danni can buy the statue, it disappears and the owner is found dead. Michael Quinn, a private investigator, believes that the right thing to do is to find and destroy this object weighted with malevolent powers. He and Danni follow it through sultry nights to hidden places in the French Quarter...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A British comedy in which academic Martin Clay is asked by a boorish country squire to assess his paintings. Clay spots what he suspects is a Bruegel and so begins a tale of lies and concealment as he schemes to separate the painting from its owner. By the author of Now You Know.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A story spanning a decade and starring a cast of characters straight out of novel-from rock icons and film stars, art dealers and art forgers-brings to life the bitter debate over the authenticity of a series of paintings by the most famous American artist of the 20th century.
11) The chroniclers
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1976]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the painters, photographers, journalists, and other writers who recorded their observations of life in the old West.
Author
Publisher
Harry N Abrams, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The official behind-the-scenes tie-in book to Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse takes readers behind the scenes to showcase the art and artistry of Sony Pictures Animation's highly-anticipated sequel to 2018's Academy Award-winning animated feature, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The ultimate deep dive into the on-screen return of the Spider-Man multiverse, the book features exclusive concept art, sketches, character...
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