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Schama, SimonShort edition. - London : Vintage Classics, 2019.'Great art has dreadful manners... ...The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable style, our greatest historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art and its necessary place in our lives, examining art through the prism of the troubling life and works of Italian master painter, and murderer, Caravaggio. Selected from The Power of Art VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis 'Great Ideas' series: Religion by Karen Armstrong Science by Ian McEwan.
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Trenton public art map
LaRiccia, Michael2012In upper left-hand corner: Artworks presents Art all day Trenton. Title from verso. Index to public art map on verso.
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Romanian Artists Birth Places, 2018
Laura Stratulat2018This point shapefile represents the birth location of Romanian artists from the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. The data table includes both ...
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2015 Spring Semester Student Data in Art and Politics in the City
Holly Orr2015This layer represents objects of grafitti, public art, and other data collected by students in Art and Politics in the Street for Spring 2015 semes...
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