The Other Side
A Christian Cowboy Romance

I have mixed feelings about this book. It introduced me to several incredible artists but I found it to be superficial. It is challenging content to write about. Would have been nice to see the images referenced with page numbers + more images in general. The art history is strong but the personal an......more

Honestly, I find whatever Jennifer Higgie writes to be fascinating. This was no exception. Her study of female artists using spirituality in their work is engaging, entertaining and enlightening. Once again I found myself googling like a bugger to look up artists and pieces of work that I'd never co......more

"'However fragmentary its condition, any work of art is actually a portion of arrested happening, or an emanation of past time. It is a graph of an activity now stilled, but a graph made visible like an astronomical body, by a light that originated with the activity'" (Kubler quoted by Higgie, 245).......more

Maybe I went into reading this book with the wrong expectations or maybe I’m not enough of an art history nerd but I would have found this book a lot more enjoyable had there been more of a red thread throughout / had the writer placed slightly more emphasis on the memoir part as opposed to the art......more

this was more so a list of artists and their biographies than a meaningful discussion of the topics mentioned in the title. more disappointing is the complete focus on western women which considering the content of the book… how is ur book so focused on the themes of exclusion and prejudice and then......more