DescriptionThis audio tour features the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major retrospective of the work of abstract expressionist sculptor David Smith. "David Smith: A Centennial" presents 110 sculptures dating 1932-65 as well as a selection of related drawings. The…
DescriptionEl gran novelista ingles Sumerset Maugham se aparto de sus acostumbradas obras de exploracion psicologica en La Luna y Seis Peniques, donde en la historia del financista Strickland que abandona a su familia para dedicarse a la pintura en Haiti, hizo una biografia novelada de Paul Gauguin, el amigo de Van Gogh y uno de los grandes precursores del arte moderno. A portrayal of a 19th century gentleman who abandons his profession and family to pursue his art in Paris. This book was inspired by Maugham's admiration for Gauguin. It presents a complex character as he explores artistic and social impulses of that time.
DescriptionIn An Equal Music, his first novel since A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth returns with a story both intricate and intimate, rich with music, art, humour, and emotion. On one level, it is a story about love, love of a woman lost and found and lost again...A chance sighting on a London bus, a letter which should not have been read, and a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music...Creating the illusion of life, it is a book about music, and about how the love of music can run like a passionate theme through a life.
DescriptionFrom best selling author Russell Martin comes a stirring account of the town that inspired one of the world's most celebrated and controversial works of art, the painting Guernica 's profound impact on the politics and culture of the 20th century, a…
DescriptionWhen a book of unexplainable occurrences brings Petra Andalee and Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen: seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric old woman seeks their company, and an invaluable Vermeer painting disappears. Before they know it, the two find themselves at the center of an international art scandal. As Petra and Calder are drawn clue by clue into a mysterious labyrinth they must draw on their powers of intuition, their skills at problem solving, and their knowledge of Vermeer. Can they decipher a crime that has left even the FBI baffled?
