Sandra Jordan
1) Yoga for Pregnancy: Ninety-Two Safe, Gentle Stretches Appropriate for Pregnant Women & New Mothers
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Language
English
Description
Sandra Jordan offers yoga as a way of developing self-reliance and calmness of mind during pregnancy. Practicing yoga poses with quiet mindfulness develops a strong, supple body and the ability to breathe deeply and relax completely. Yoga for Pregnancy provides ninety-two lyngar poses carefully chosen for their safety and effectiveness during and after pregnancy. Each pose is explained concisely, illustrated with a photograph, and clearly marked with...
Author
Language
English
Description
How does someone become a groundbreaking artist?
Does it start when you're very little and discover that you like to play dress up? Does it happen when you're ten years old and someone gives you a Polaroid camera for Christmas? Maybe it begins in college, when you're finally on your own to discover the world as you see it for the first time.
Looking at the life of legendary photographer Cindy Sherman, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan have created...
4) Frog hunt
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of children set out on a summer morning to catch a frog and along the way they observe a muskrat, minnows, and a fish as well.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Snack is a very happy puppy when Mrs. Portly adopts him but when persnickety Mr. Portly returns from a fishing trip, he banishes Snack to a doghouse until their mutual love of art, and a thief, bring them together.
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Language
English
Description
Imagines Jackson Pollock at work during the creation of one of his paint-swirled and splattered canvasses.
Jackson Pollock, known as 'Action Jackson' because of the amount of movement and emotion he expressed in his paintings, did not paint like a normal artist. He neglected the easel and chose house paint over oils or watercolors. Some liked his modern style and some didn't. But everyone agreed he was a true original.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"His crew calls him Maestro. Thousands of fans call him a magician. Over the past five decades, Dale Chihuly has created some of the most innovative and popular works of art in museums and gardens around the world. Authors Greenberg and Jordan met with Chihuly in his studio for exclusive interviews discussing his early life, his passion for glassblowing, and his dazzling works. Lavishly illustrated with Chihuly's art and family photographs, this book...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring true story of the Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the other a daredevil, both devoted to their craft . . . but even more devoted to each other." -- From Amazon.com summary.
Author
Publisher
DK Ink
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black and white portraits of himself and his friends.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
53 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with evocative historical photographs and over fifty color reproductions of his ceramics, The Mad Potter tells the extraordinary story of an eccentric American maverick who was determined to make his mark and who never stopped believing that even the unlikeliest dreams can come true.
When George Ohr's trove of pottery was discovered in 1967, years after his death, his true genius was discovered with it. The world could finally see how...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
193 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy Warhol, the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, is well known for his Pop Art masterpieces. But there is more to Warhol than that: he also made films, launched 'Interview' magazine, and forsaw the convergence of art, Hollywood fashion and business as the trend of the future. "In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes." The Campbell's Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created...