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Composer Arky Levin is at a creative dead end when, entirely by chance, he stumbles across an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Based on a real piece of performance art that took place in 2010, the unusual instillation moves almost all who participate in it. Arky finds himself drawn to the exhibit, returning day after day - and as he does, he begins to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.
12) The Celts
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Translation of: Celti.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Celts, the origins of Europe, Palazzo Grassi ... March-December 1991"--T.p. verso.
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Smithsonian Civil War is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book featuring 150 entries in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. From among tens of thousands of Civil War objects in the Smithsonian's collections, curators handpicked 550 items and wrote a unique narrative that begins before the war through the Reconstruction period. The perfect gift book for fathers and history lovers, Smithsonian Civil War combines one-of-a-kind, famous,...
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The nucleus of the present-day Library of Congress was formed in 1815, when the nation purchased Thomas Jefferson's personal library of about six thousand volumes, which had been organized around the concepts of "Memory" (history), "Reason" (philosophy, law, and science), and "Imagination" (the arts). Today, the Library's vast holdings - nearly 110 million items in formats ranging rom manuscripts to motion pictures and sound recordings - offer an...
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The history, culture, and aesthetics of the Momoyama period are explored by analyzing and reproducing masterpieces of artists in many media: paintings (including many superb screen paintings), sculpture, calligraphy, tea ceremony utensils, lacquerware, ceramics, metalwork, arms and armor, textiles, and Noh masks. A team of leading scholars and specialists in Japanese art contributes an introduction to each section with an essay that places the individual...
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This book published on the occasion of the Exhibition "Matisse in Morocco", National Gallery of Art, Washington, 18 March - 3 June 1990 ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20 June - 4 September 1990 ; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 28 September - 20 November 1990 ; The State Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, 15 December 1990 - 15 February 1991. This catalogue reproduces Matisse's 23 Morocco paintings in color, 12 of them never before seen...