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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
True passion can drive you mad. Stephen Dedalus, the main character in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man straddles many lines, including those between sanity and insanity, piety and sin, and individuality...
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Planet E Book: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [Pdf]
The complete text of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce is available here in PDF format. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, which was first released in 1917, is 317 pages pages long.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Are You an Artist?
Look at all the ways you can be an artist. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Women as Artists: Key Points
Meet women artists from past and present who have created, crafted, and forged their way forward with their work.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Artists Behind the Polychrome Sculpture
Learn about the artists behind the polychrome sculpture.
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Medieval Sourcebook: Vasari Lives of the Artists
This wonderful site from the Fordham University indexes selections from the great writer Vasari and his major work on the lives of Renaissance artists. The text is translated into English and a bibliograpy is provided for further research.
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Satoshi Kitamura: Pablo the Artist
A video of the book "Pablo The Artist", written by Satoshi Kitamura. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Flavia and Her Artists" by Willa Cather
The full text of the short "The Five Boons of Life" by Mark Twain. Register for a free account to unlock annotation tools, printing, and more.
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Press: Excerpt From Conversations With Picasso
Excerpt from Brassai's book Conversations with Picasso. The author recounts his dialogue with artist Pablo Picasso.
Other
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: European Renaissance and Reformation, 1300 1600 [Pdf]
Chapter 17 of a textbook on world history (36 pages). Includes a Renaissance timeline and map. Looks at the conditions that led to the Italian Renaissance, major artists, writers, the Northern Renaissance, the Elizabethan Age, the...
Other
Stick Figure Hamlet
Read the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet illustrated in cartoons by Dan Carroll. The artist keeps the original text.
Other
Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness
This is Chapter One from "Becoming Human: Evolution and Human Uniqueness," by Ian Tattersall. This chapter presents recent findings about the art and artifacts of early humans, and what those artifacts tell us about the intellectual...
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg: Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
The complete full-text of this literary work is available to download or read in online multiple digital formats. This famous translation was first published in 1910 and includes an introductory note by the translator, John Addington...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Women's Issues in Art: Key Points
In this series of videos, we've met artists who use their work as a platform for thinking about big issues- not just those that are unique to them as women and artists, but about gender, sexuality, equality, and political rights, too.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Portal to full text short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Includes "The Great Stone Face," "The Artist of the Beautiful," and others.
FableVision
Fable Vision: Peter Reynolds: Living Forever
A click-through story about the power of words and illustrations to open readers' minds to unique ways of looking at the world.
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Library Project: Online Books Page, John Ruskin
The Digital Library provides links to the complete texts of many of John Ruskin's works including "The King of the Golden River," "Sesame and Lilies," and "Unto This Last."
University of Chicago
University of Chicago Press: Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs
The University of Chicago Press offers an extended excerpt from the book "Daring to Look", by Anne Whiston Spirn. This book takes a close look at documentary photographer Dorothea Lange's career and her unpublished 1939 portfolio.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: Confidence by Henry James
Read the full text of the comic novel "Confidence" by Henry James. The novel follows the awkward relationship between an artist, scientist, and an inscrutable heroine.
Starfall
Starfall: Vincent Van Gogh
A short interactive story for early readers based on the artist Vincent van Gogh. Three of his paintings are presented. The story vocabulary is posted below the book. A link also takes you to a short biography.
Other
Reading Is Fundamental: Illustrators at Work Fruit
Featuring the work of Saxton Freymann, this site provides a slideshow focusing on using edible art - expressive carvings made from fruits and vegetables - to illustrate books for children.
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