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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In March 1942, Mieke Eerken's father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invade the island he was interned in a concentration camp, where he is forced to do hard labor for three years. Meanwhile, across the globe, police in the Netherlands carry a crying five-year-old girl out of her home, abandoned and ostracized as a daughter of Nazi sympathizers. This was Mieke's mother. It was the post-war period of reckoning,...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The story explores the life and work of one of the most loved, influential, and well-known artists, Johannes Vermeer. Images from his paintings have become part of our collective imagination and are instantly recognizable. In the new feature documentary, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Cottet adopts an imaginative and sensitive approach to his subject, focusing on not only his work, but also his family life, including his conversion to Catholicism.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A visual narrative of the artist's life and work, told primarily through reproductions of his art and supplementary documentary images presented in chronological order. Contains five short critical and biographical texts. Includes a section reproducing Mondrian's known works in small black-and-white illustrations with brief captions.
"Piet Mondrian's rigorously geometric paintings in primary colors are icons of the 20th century that had a powerful...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This stunning, edge-of-your seat memoir chronicles Astrid's terrifying experience working as a double agent, preserving her brother's trust just so that she could get enough information to put him away for life. Judas is the intimate account of Astrid's deeply personal betrayal, set against the backdrop of their haunting family history and the astonishing world of the criminal underground. --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An epic tale of one passionate birder's record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 continents - in just one year - to see over 7,000 bird species, rare and common, before many go extinct. When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the "Big Year" - the legendary record for birdwatching - he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday,...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and her family fled Nazi Germany to live in Amsterdam, where she struck up a close friendship with her next-door neighbor, an outspoken and fun-loving young girl named Anne Frank. For several years, the inseparable pair enjoyed a carefree childhood of games, sleepovers, and treats with the other children in their neighborhood of Rivierenbuurt. But in 1942, Hannah and Anne's lives abruptly changed forever. As the Nazi occupation...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of the impending Holocaust and became an archivist of Nazi...
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A delightful graphic memoir told in photographs. This book will warm your heart and make you laugh out loud! Ype is a gay man living in Amsterdam with his boyfriend Nico. When asked by Nico to accompany him on a work trip to America, Ype must confront his deep fear of flying. While doing so, Ype finds he also has to come to terms with his social and sexual anxieties, his neurotic nature, and a serious case of imposter syndrome. What follows is a moving...
Author
Publisher
Ridinghouse and Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Piet Mondrian: A Life is the first dedicated biography of Piet Mondrian to be published in English. Hans Janssen's remarkable book provides a long overdue, in-depth and compelling account of the life of perhaps the most influential abstract artist of the 20th century. Janssen, former chief curator at the Kunstmuseum Den Haag--home to the world's largest collection of Mondrian works--draws on his own research and that of a cohort of distinguished scholars,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt's formative years by a prize-winning biographer. Rembrandt van Rijn's early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare's, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt? Seeking the roots of Rembrandt's genius, the celebrated Dutch writer Onno...
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Language
English
Description
"In his lifetime, the fame of Johannes Vermeer (1632 1675) barely extended beyond his native Delft and a small circle of patrons. After his death, his name was largely forgotten, with works outside of Holland often misattributed to other artists. It was not until the mid-19th century that Vermeer came to the attention of the international art world, which suddenly looked upon his narrative minutiae, meticulous textural detail, and majestic planes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many—Christians as well as Jews—as Satan’s disciple during his lifetime, Spinoza has been regarded as a secular saint since his death. Many contradictory beliefs have been attached to his name: rationalism or metaphysics, atheism or pantheism, liberalism or despotism, Jewishness...
76) Vincent Van Gogh
Author
Series
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Vincent Van Gogh loved to paint, but his paintings kept coming out sludgy and brown. Looking for inspiration, he visited his beloved brother in Paris and encountered a group of painters called the Impressionists. They showed him how to use bright colors! After this, he never stopped painting, making over two thousand artworks. Be inspired by the story of one of the most iconic painters in Western art history, told with the help of his own masterpieces....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Pr
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Photos of the famous diary, school pictures, and the rooms in which she lived with her family while hiding from the Nazis for two years are compiled in this moving biography about the short life and enduring spirit of this young girl and talented writer.
78) God's smuggler
Author
Publisher
Chosen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Sixty years after Brother Andrew's first trip, his classic, thrilling account of smuggling Bibles across closed borders will inspire new readers"--
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
'Studio of the South' tells the story of Van Gogh' s period in Arles in 1888-1889, when his powers were at their height. Based on original research, the book reveals discoveries that throw new light on the legendary artist and give a definitive account of his fifteen months spent in Arles, including his collaboration with Gauguin. Van Gogh headed to Arles believing that the landscape of Provence would have parallels with Japan, whose art he greatly...
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