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9781616894146 | Princeton Architectural Pr, January 5, 2016, cover price $29.95
9782020694193 | Chronicle Books Llc, June 30, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Full-color reproductions of more than twenty paintings and informative text help children learn why these paintings have intrigued art lovers for centuries and discover just what makes each work a masterpiece.
9780811854030 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 20, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Full-color reproductions of more than twenty paintings and informative text help children learn why these paintings have intrigued art lovers for centuries and discover just what makes each work a masterpiece.
Hardcover:
9783791371740 | Mul edition (Prestel Pub, May 8, 2014), cover price $19.95
Focuses on how artists tell us what the figures in their paintings are feeling without using words. Each picture tells something about the subject's inner feelings, attitude or mood. Readers will be encouraged to explore how faces express thoughts and look at how body language exposes states of mind.
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9781845071141 | Reprint edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, March 24, 2009), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Focuses on how artists tell us what the figures in their paintings are feeling without using words.
Here's an introduction to great art, through wonderful paintings of animals from across the centuries! We see paintings of horses, dogs, farm animals, baby animals and much more. With full-colour reproductions and minimal text, this is an interesting introduction to great art for young children.
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9781845070274 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, April 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents eighteen paintings of animals by a variety of artists along with simple words used to describe them.
Paperback:
9781845071042 | New edition (Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, December 11, 2008), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Here's an introduction to great art, through wonderful paintings of animals from across the centuries!
Product Description: In this fun and accessible book, children learn to develop their ability to "see" art in new ways. Each spread features a different painting and focuses on a different perspective -- up, down, around, inside, outside, and more. Simple text and questions invite children to examine each work more closely, giving them a better understanding of the painting and of artistic techniques...read more
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9781845077969, titled "Look!: Zoom in on Art" | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, November 24, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this fun and accessible book, children learn to develop their ability to "see" art in new ways.
Through a collection of masterpieces, such as 'The Scullery Maid' and 'The Graham Children,' readers are challenged to examine a painting and consider what may happen next in relation to the body language of the people they see presented in the artwork, complete with biographical information about the various artists.
Hardcover:
9781845070342 | Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, November 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Through a collection of masterpieces, readers are challenged to examine a painting and consider what may happen next in relation to the body language of the people they see presented in the artwork.
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9788484701705 | Bilingual edition (Corimbo, October 31, 2004), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Presents paintings of various subjects, selected from details of works by artists of different times and places, from an eagle by Hokusai to a pair of shoes by Van Gogh.
Hardcover:
9781929132478 | Kane Miller Book Pub, August 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The tale of a museum tour led by the Archangel Gabriel from Fra Angelico's 'Annunciation' serves to introduce paintings from the Renaissance to Jackson Pollock and the symbols they use to express their meanings.
Hardcover:
9780195219128 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 12, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Presents an introduction to art and discusses how looking at art from different perspectives gives the pieces more depth.
9780195219111 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 12, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Presents an introduction to art and discusses how looking at art from different perspectives gives the pieces more depth.
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9780439045933 | Scholastic Prof Book Div, December 1, 1998, cover price $4.33 | About this edition: Paintings by such artists as Matisse, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe introduce the variety of subjects, colors, and styles that can be found in art.
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9783791318875 | Prestel Pub, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes how painters over the centuries have depicted scenes of the birth of Jesus, and explains what they mean
Depicts livestock taken from paintings, including pigs by Gainsborough, a cow by Monet, and a duck by Cassatt
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9781565658264 | Lowell House, September 1, 1997, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Depicts livestock taken from paintings, including pigs by Gainsborough, a cow by Monet, and a duck by Cassatt
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9781565658257 | Board book edition (Lowell House, September 1, 1997), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Portrays wild animals taken from paintings, including a lion by Rubens, a rabbit by Pisanello, and a deer by Landseer
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9780688116798 | Greenwillow, September 1, 1992, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Presents objects for the letters of the alphabet through paintings by such artists as Magritte, Picasso, Botticelli, and Vermeer
Paperback:
9780688147303 | Greenwillow, October 1, 1996, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Presents objects for the letters of the alphabet through paintings by such artists as Magritte, Picasso, Botticelli, and Vermeer
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9780613945639 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $22.10 | About this edition: Presents objects for the letters of the alphabet through paintings by such artists as Magritte, Picasso, Botticelli, and Vermeer
Examines the way various artists depict different places in their works and describes how to use such techniques as perspective, light, details, and color
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9781562948191 | Reprint edition (Millbrook Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $8.95
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9781562941727 | Millbrook Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $22.90 | About this edition: Examines the way various artists depict different places in their works and describes how to use such techniques as perspective, light, details, and color
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9780385411356 | Doubleday, April 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A survey of Western art from 1400 to 1950 introduces major movements, techniques, and themes, examining works by artists as varied as Jackson Pollack, Titian, Rembrandt, Chardin, and Picasso
The artist explains the ways in which he transforms drips, smudges, spatters and spills into designs and recognizable shapes
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9780670664511 | Penguin USA, March 1, 1976, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Shows how spills, smudges, and other painting accidents can be turned into interesting pictures.
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