A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus grows from schoolboy to exile choosing art over church and nation.
2,072-word summary · 9 min read
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The Girl You Left Behind
Two women a century apart fight for what they love, joined by a portrait painted in wartime France and claimed in modern London.
2,613-word summary · 12 min read
The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring
Gary Russell's 2002 HarperCollins companion follows Peter Jackson's Fellowship from Hobbiton to Isengard. Sketches, costumes, weapons and bigatures show how…
2,347-word summary · 10 min read
To the Lighthouse
On a Scottish island, the Ramsay family and their guests circle one postponed trip to a lighthouse across ten years of loss.
2,548-word summary · 11 min read
The One and Only Ivan
A mall gorilla who paints promises a dying elephant friend to get baby Ruby to a better home.
2,178-word summary · 10 min read
Gathering Blue
Orphaned weaver Kira is kept in the Council Edifice to mend the Singer robe, learning dyes and control until lasting blue thread opens choice.
2,954-word summary · 13 min read
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Claudia and Jamie run away to the Met, chase whether a 225 dollar Angel is a Michelangelo, and trade secrets with Mrs. Frankweiler.
2,774-word summary · 12 min read
Wall and Piece
Stencil rats and police with jokes that sting power then linger.
2,024-word summary · 9 min read
Steal Like an Artist
Kleon's 2012 illustrated guide gives ten principles for creative work, from borrowing openly and starting early to sharing, staying kind, and cutting the…
2,999-word summary · 13 min read
Just Kids
Patti Smith recalls broke young years with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1960s New York, from Brooklyn rooms to the Chelsea Hotel, art, music, and a kept promise.
2,401-word summary · 11 min read
Ways of Seeing
Seven short essays on how pictures, ads, and nudes teach us to look.
4,357-word summary · 19 min read
Origin
Robert Langdon chases Edmond Kirsch's lost discovery through Bilbao and Barcelona to answer where we come from and where we are going.
2,604-word summary · 12 min read
I'll Give You the Sun
Twins Noah and Jude split after their mother's death, bound by art, guilt and first love.
2,260-word summary · 10 min read
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Edwards teaches seeing edges spaces to draw via right brain exercises.
2,229-word summary · 10 min read
Confess
A young mother fighting to see her son takes a job with a Dallas artist who turns anonymous confessions into paintings.
2,733-word summary · 12 min read
Girl with a Pearl Earring
A maid in Vermeer's Delft household is drawn into the painter's world and into his most famous canvas.
1,973-word summary · 9 min read
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Addie trades her soul for freedom in 1714 France and lives forgotten for 300 years, until a Brooklyn bookseller remembers her name.
3,480-word summary · 15 min read
The Goldfinch
Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.
3,924-word summary · 17 min read