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1) Asunder
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marie's job as a guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and quiet contemplation. But amid the hushed corridors of the Gallery surge currents of history and violence, paintings whose power belies their own fragility. There also lingers the legacy of her great-grandfather Ted, the museum guard who slipped and fell moments before reaching the suffragette Mary Richardson as she took a blade to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
©1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Stuck waiting for her family in the art museum when she would much rather be playing outside in the park, a little girl is picked up by two cherubim and taken for a wild romp through several paintings.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
424 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A big, rewarding novel about art, politics, family, terrorism, courage, and happiness.
Promise Whittaker, the diminutive but decisive acting director of the National Museum of Asian Art, is pregnant again- and that's just the beginning of her difficulties. Her mentor, the previous director, suddenly walked away from his job with no explanation, and now is on a dig somewhere in the Taklamakan desert. Her favorite curator has dropped their newest treasure,...
8) Smudge
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Press
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A smudge in the shape of a little boy falls off a painting and roams around a museum trying to find a new painting to call home.
9) The museum
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl tours and twirls through museum galleries experiencing different emotions evoked by different styles of art, and then expresses her energy and inspiration when she finds an empty canvas.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
Author
Series
Joe Sherlock volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a valuable painting is stolen from a local art museum, fourth-grade super-sleuth Joe Sherlock investigates, aided by his sister, Hailey.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little girl becomes bored and cranky during a visit to an art museum until she begins to identify with details in the paintings. Suddenly art starts to imitate real life."--
15) Beyond the grave
Author
Series
Série noire volume 2113
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
Français
18) Mousterpiece
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
30 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janson the mouse, who lives in a museum, becomes an acclaimed artist by copying the styles of paintings she sees there. Includes notes about the artists and works featured.
Author
Publisher
Gallic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Ras, a Tamil exile working at London's National Gallery, is awaiting trial for the theft of a Renaissance masterpiece. Searching for the truth behind her client's act, Ras's lawyer, Elizabeth, must piece together his story and that of enigmatic British writer Alex Benson. The trail she follows leads from Sri Lanka to the hills of Italy where, despite the serenity of the landscape, war's shadow looms long and large."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A Jewish woman in 1938 Nova Scotia becomes obsessed with a painting in a museum. It is called Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam and is on loan from Holland. The woman decides to live the subject's life, a momentous decision as the Nazis are on the march. By the author of The Bird Artist.
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