Five top books on artists who've captivated our culture

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books on artists who have captivated our culture:The Painted Girls
by Cathy Marie Buchanan

Who had a better eyewitness view of French master Edgar Degas than one of his ballerina muses, Marie van Boethem? Cathy Marie Buchanan imagines what adolescence may have been like for young Boethem during La Belle Époque, when she was immortalized