Make Up Artist Training

This is a scholarly, theoretically smart, and accessible book about the changes in the training of artists in twentieth-century America, as that training has moved from ateliers and art academies to universities (and art schools that think of themselves as universities). More than just education history, however, this book relates the evolution of art itself to changes in pedagogy and theory (both educational and cultural).

"Once upon a time there was a train that dreamed of being a boat." It was the train that took immigrants seeking a better life in the New World across the endless flat prairies to San Francisco. And it was the train that took Conor, a small homesick boy from Ireland, on the voyage he would remember for the rest of his life. While on that train, Conor dreams of being back in Connemara, Ireland, with his grandfather when suddenly, to his amazement, the waving prairie grass becomes the sea and the train on which he is traveling, like a boat, sails across it right back to his home. How Conor comes to realize that the home he's left behind will always be with him provides a reassuring and deeply satisfying resolution to this poignant tale. The dreamlike paintings by Caldecott Honor artist Eric Rohmann combine with the lyrical text of Irish playwright Antoine O Flatharta to make this one of the most memorable books of this--or any--season.