Edward Hopper in Vermont by Clause, Bonnie T.

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John Singer Sargent : complete paintings. Volume 1, The early portraits by Ormond, Richard

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Impressionism, fashion & modernity

Table of Contents: “…/ Françoise Tétart-Vittu -- Édouard Manet : The Parisienne / Françoise Tétart-Vittu -- Fashion en plein air / Birgit Haase -- Claude Monet : Women in the garden / Birgit Haase -- Fashion and intimate portraits / Justine De Young -- Édouard Manet : Nana / Valerie Steele -- An ideal of virile urbanity / Philippe Thiébaut -- James Tissot : The circle of the Rue Royale / Guy Cogeval and Stéphane Guécan -- Looking through, across, and up : the architectural aesthetics of the Paris street / David Van Zanten -- Spaces of modernity / Gloria Groom -- Gustave Caillebotte : Paris street, rainy day / Aileen Ribeiro -- Photography, fashion, and the cult of appearances / Elizabeth Anne McCauley -- Shops versus department stores / Françoise Tétart-Vittu -- Edgar Degas : The millinery shop / Gloria Groom -- Fashion and the press / Justine De Young -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir : Madame Georges Charpentier and her children / Sylvie Patry -- Changing silhouettes / Helen Burnham -- Key dates in fashion and commerce, 1851-89 / Françoise Tétart-Vittu and Gloria Groom.…”


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John Singer Sargent : complete paintings by Ormond, Richard, Kilmurray, Elaine

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French tutor : grammar and vocabulary workbook by Christensen, Mary C., Cracco, Julie

Table of Contents: “…How to use this book -- The Discovery Method -- Become a successful language learner -- Recontre des familles = Meeting of families -- Sous l'océan = Under the sea -- Toi, ton signe = You, your sign -- En plein air = Outdoors -- Tout le monde est connecté = Everyone is connected -- On y va! …”


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Eating eternity : food, art and literature in France by Baxter, John, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…--Charles de Gaulle -- The Rise of the Restaurant: Still open: Le Grand Véfour, which served Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Josephine, George Sand, Colette and Jean Cocteau -- The Blood of Life: "I live on good soup, not on fine words"--Molière -- An Army Runs On Its Stomach: Dining with Napoleon Bonaparte -- Absinthe, The Green Fairy: "You see things as they really are"--Oscar Wilde -- The Importance of Bread: Jean-François Millet's The Gleaners -- En Plein Air; Lunch in the garden with Claude Monet -- Comfort Food: Henri Matisse's codfish paste and devil's potatoes -- Setting Meals to Music: Paris café life in the operas of Puccini and Rossini -- The Zoo is On the Menu; Voisin's Christmas feast of 1870 -- On The French Riviera; Renoir, Colette, Picasso, Fitzgerald and Hemingway enjoy the flavors of the Côte d'Azur -- Surreal Cannibals; Dalí, Buñuel and cannibal fantasies -- Coffee Time: Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus at the Café de Flore, Modigliani at the Rotonde and Toulouse-Lautrec at the Rat Mort -- Shaken But Not Stirred: Add liquor, jazz and Josephine Baker -- Melted Camembert and Limp Fried Eggs: Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory -- The Food Front: Surviving the German Occupation by rationing, foraging and "Party Surprise" -- The Chicken From Hell: New French favorites from India, Russia, China and Vietnam -- Stars of the Stove: Carême and Escoffier to Soyer and Child -- Food Heaven: The culinary traditions of France -- A Gastronomical Paris.…”


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Into the Arctic : painting Canada's changing north

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Impressionism in Russia : dawn of the avant-garde

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