Amy Lyford’s interpretive biography "Exquisite Dreams" covers artist Dorothea Tanning’s life and remarkable range of work. Born in 1910, Tanning recalled her Galesburg, Illinois, childhood as being a “good one.” She later found a... Read More

Art historian Noah Charney’s book "Brushed Aside" is a colorful overview of underrecognized women artists and art influencers throughout history. While an estimated 75 percent of the human handprints found with cave paintings belonged... Read More

Visually stunning and astonishing in scope, Stephen A. Harris’s "The Beauty of the Flower" is a history of botanical illustration that has all the makings of a classic reference text. Hundreds of gorgeous images are used to trace the... Read More