Carol Strickland

Carol Strickland's latest book on art history is "Impressionism: A Legacy of Light," released as an enhanced eBook from Erudition Digital. (See website-http://www.eruditions.co.uk/publications/masterpieces-of-art.html) Throughout years of writing on art, Strickland's motive has been to democratize the subject, to remove the impediments of fear and snobbery while educating and entertaining her readers. She has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and contributes feature stories on visual art to Art in America magazine. Her stories on culture have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, Art and Antiques, MOMUS, and Private Journey magazine. She is the author of the best-selling "The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern," which will appear in an updated 3rd edition in January 2018 under the title "The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present." Strickland writes a monthly column on art and politics for www.clydefitchreport.com. Her book on architecture, "The Annotated Arch: A Crash Course in the History of Architecture," sold out its first edition and will be reprinted as "The Annotated Flying Buttress." Other print books are "The Illustrated Timeline of Art History," "The Illustrated Timeline of Western Literature," and monographs on the artists Paul Waldman, Daisy Craddock, and Aris Kalaizis. Strickland's screenplays for feature films have won prizes in prestigious script competitions. Her historical novel (an enhanced eBook) set in 6th-century Constantinople called "The Eagle and the Swan" is available for kindle and iPad. For more information, see the book website http://www.theeagleandtheswan.com. The book has a facebook page and a twitter account (@eagleandtheswan). It will be released as a print book in 2018 by Echo Point Books. Carol has a home in Long Island, New York. Her website is http://www.carolcstrickland.com and twitter account @carolartbeat. Her motive for writing the novel was to give a voice to the most maligned--and arguably the most significant--figure in the history of the late Roman Empire, Empress Theodora. As steamy as it is true and richly imagined, the novel has been described as "Sex and the City meets I, Claudius. To hear an audio interview about the eBook, go to http://blog.cplesley.com/2013/11/the-real-panem.html