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 demands, only to...
Artists
- Auteur:Yoder, RachelSommaire:
- Auteur:Harvey, Jeanne WalkerSommaire:
In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make art.
- Auteur:Rice, PatriciaSommaire:
Because Lady Lucinda Pembroke's paintings have a reputation for being prophetic, her picture of a handsome man laughing as a ship sinks causese widespread gossip. Londoners are sure it must be Sir Trevelyan Rochester, gloating as his...
- Auteur:Miles, VictoriaSommaire:
Artist, animal lover and would-be swimming sensation Mimi Power knows what it's like to live under the tyranny of a three-year-old sister. Things have never been the same in the Power house since "The Waby" arrived. Finding creative...
- Auteur:Stringfellow, Tara M.Sommaire:
In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather...
- Auteur:Davis, Ann, Herbert, Elizabeth, Salahub, Jennifer, Sowiak, ChristineSommaire:
Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of...
- Auteur:Baldwin, NeilSommaire:
Man Ray is the quintessential modernist figure - painter, sculptor, photographer, filmmaker, poet, and philosopher. One of the most fascinating of the Surrealists who transformed the Paris art world during the 1920s, Man Ray was an...
- Auteur:Shapiro, J. H.Sommaire:
A picture book biography of urban environmental artist Tyree Guyton, discussing his childhood in 1950s Detroit and the way he used art to transform his decaying, crime-ridden neighborhood into an internationally-recognized exhibit.
- Auteur:Tippett, MariaSommaire:
Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? The eight creative figures profiled in Made in British Columbia are not just distinguished artists who made an enduring mark on Canadian...
- Auteur:Holowack, KevinSommaire:
Lightning-struck and pregnant, Ruth feels her husband slipping away after they-and unborn Gayle-miraculously survive the bolt out of the blue. Nineteen years later and stuck on the farm her husband bought before abandoning the family,...
- Auteur:White, MichaelSommaire:
White weaves the history of early scientific endeavor, Leonardo's colorful personal life, including his deprived childhood, homosexuality, and relationships with contemporaries such as Machiavelli and Borgia.
- Auteur:Mars, FrantzSommaire:
Le piège des lucioles... un recueil de péripéties dans la quête de la vie de couple d’un personnage nommé Fritz, un homme charmant par son savoir-vivre cherchant à ranger sa vie. Il se heurte toujours à l’impossible. Le livre est comme...
- Auteur:Chicoine, JeanSommaire:
En 1972, deux jeunes cégépiens de Montréal qui s'assument comme artistes -- l'un peintre, l'autre poète -- font de l'autostop sur l'autoroute 40 pour aller passer la fin de semaine à Trois-Rivières, ville...
- Auteur:Stabler, DavidSommaire:
Every great artist started out as a kid. Forget the awards, the sold-out museum exhibitions, and the timeless masterpieces. When the world's most celebrated artists were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Jackson...
- Auteur:Smith, PattiSommaire:
In the summer when Coltrane died, poet Patti Smith fell in love with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Eventually the two joined up with the Andy Warhol superstars and called later Hotel Chelsea home. Here Smith recounts her passionate...
- Auteur:Kenneth, OppelSommaire:
The Rylance family is stuck. Dad's got writer's block. Ethan promised to illustrate a group project at school—even though he can't draw. Sarah's still pining for a puppy. And they all miss Mom. So much more than they can say. Enter...
- Auteur:Meshake, Rene, Anderson, KimSommaire:
This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictionary of Ojibwe poetics. Meshake was born in the railway town of Nakina in northwestern...
- Auteur:Groth, Darren, Groth, SimonSommaire:
Ashley Drummond is an elite swimmer. Clayton Sandalford is a talented artist. From the moment of their first meeting, they were destined to be together. Staying together, however, will test the limits of their love. A world-record swim...
- Auteur:Saltz, JerrySommaire:
"Inspiration leaps off the pages from Jerry Saltz's new book on creativity ... This book is for the artist or non-artist, for the person who gets plain English, for the person who understands that practical talk can coax out...
- Auteur:Laine, SusanSommaire:
Duncan Kerr is the art director of Enamored Press, an erotic romance publisher based in Seattle. An open submissions call for new artists yields an imaginative book cover with rich details and bold colors that catches his interest....