"Exploration of a "rare, emotionally intense way of life" in which artists like Raden Saleh and Walter Spies abandon the cultures that created them and adopt an exotic alternative"-- According to Paul Bowles, a tourist travels quickly home, while a traveler moves slowly from one destination to the next. In this book, Jamie James describes "a third species, those who roam the world in search of the home they never had in the place that made them."...

Several artists who paint different things, with different kinds of paint, and at different times of the day, all paint the same island that they visit each summer.

"How many female artists can you name? Artemisia Gentileschi, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keefe? Here's a 360-degree look at the role women have played in art history, including the influence and empowerment of women through art beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel"--

In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone-or something-they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely...

Presents a history of African American visual arts and artists from the days of slavery to the present.

Tired of painting the same old Easter eggs, Henri the rabbit decides that as an artist he needs to create something different and takes his inspiration from various periods of art history.