" Like much of James Joyce's work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a fictional re-creation of the Irish writer's own life and early environment. The experiences of the novel's young hero, Stephen Dedalus, unfold in astonishingly vivid scenes that seem freshly recalled from life and provide a powerful portrait of the coming of age of a young man of unusual intelligence, sensitivity, and character. The interest of the novel is deepened by...

Concise analyses of scenes and characters accompany reprints of 170 of Wyeth's drawings and paintings of American people and their surroundings.

"Kristina Applegate Lutes, Kids Share Workshops, Inc., Mrs. Kelley's 5th grade class at Union Elementary School in Montpelier, Vermont, Mr. Costello's 3rd and 4th grade class at Thatcher Brook Primary School in Waterbury, Vermont, and the kids at the Tibetan SOS Children's Village in Bylakuppe, India, all helped to create Kids Share: Tibetan and Vermont Children's Narratives. The children wrote their own narratives, shared their hopes and dreams,...

Chronicles the life and career of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, including her early years, artistic career and personal relationships.

"Anna Green thought she was marrying Liam "West" Weston for access to subsidized family housing while at UCLA. She also thought she'd signed divorce papers when the graduation caps were tossed, and they both went on their merry ways. Three years later, Anna is a starving artist living paycheck to paycheck while West is a Stanford professor. He may be one of four heirs to the Weston Foods conglomerate, but he has little interest in working for the...

An artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced that she is turning into a dog and, as her symptoms intensify, struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity a secret, until she meets a group of mothers who may also be more than what they seem. An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's...

Profiles the lives and discusses the humor and tragedy of artists of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century, including Georgia O'Keefe, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso.

An autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, an abstract expressionist artist, who acquired the largest collection of abstract expressionist paintings in private hands.