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Torture the Artist
by Joey Goebel
From Amazon.com "Torture the Artist is a difficult novel to describe. The closest I can come is a combination of incendiary superhero comics with subtle shades of pornography, along with the naivete of childhood, the images as bold as the strokes of the cartoon artist's pen. Goebel attacks his theme with fervor and enthusiasm, daring the reader to ignore his radical ideas. Stuck in a jaded and sophisticated world, this young author strikes a blow for his own voice, load and clear, a cross between Boogie Nights, Animal House and Quentin Tarantino's limbic brain. Luan Gaines/2004."
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3607
O33
T67
2004 |
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The Birth of Venus : A Novel
by Sarah Dunant
From Publishers Weekly: "
In this arresting tale of art, love and betrayal in 15th-century Florence, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant seeks the freedom of marriage in order to paint, but finds that she may have bought her liberty at the cost of love and true fulfillment. ... Dunant masterfully recreates Florence in the age of the original bonfire of the vanities. The novel moves to its climax as Savonarola's reign draws to a bloody close, with the final few chapters describing Alessandra's fate and hinting at the identity of her artist lover."
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6054
U457
B58
2003 |
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In the Company of the Courtesan : A Novel by Sarah Dunant
From Publisher's Weekly: "... A wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo recounts fantastic escapades with his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini. Escaping the 1527 sacking of Rome with just the clothes on their backs (and a few swallowed jewels in their bellies), Fiammetta and Bucino seek refuge in Venice. Starved, stinking, her beauty destroyed, Fiammetta despairs—but through cunning, will, Bucino's indefatigable loyalty and the magic of a mysterious blind healer called La Draga, she eventually recovers." |
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6054
U457
I5
2006 |
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The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman
From Publishers Weekly: "
Poet, short story writer and novelist Braverman delivers a wildly energetic, nearly hallucinatory account of Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and wife of Diego Rivera. Frida is 46 and on her deathbed, addicted to morphine, Demerol, cigarettes and alcohol, and missing one leg from an amputation. Her memory is acute, though her chronology is foggy; in ecstatic prose she recounts the salient events of her adult life. "
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3552
R3555
I53
2002 |
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The Lover's Path : An Illustrated Novel by Kris Waldherr
From Amazon: "Praised by The New York Times Book Review for her "quality of myth and magic," Waldherr brings to life a remarkable period in Venetian history. Her glorious celebration of romance, the feminine spirit, and the power of love to transform will inspire and move readers everywhere. "
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3623
A3587
L68
2005 |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone
A "passionate" biographical novel about Michaelangelo. |
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3537
T669
A47
1963 |
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Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
From the back cover:
"A professor invites a colleague from the art department
to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for
decades. The professor swear it is a Vermeer--why has he hidden
this important work for so long?" |
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3572
R34
G57
1999 |
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Girl with A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chavelier
From the back cover:
"Through the eyes of 16-year-old Griet, the world of
1660s Holland comes dazzling alive in this richly imagined
portrait of a young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most
celebrated paintings." |
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3553
H4367
G57
2000 |
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History of the Universe by Jennifer Bartlett
From the jacket:
"Jane Tauber Elliot's success as an artist is more than
a little tainted by the downward spiral of her private life.
From her California girlhood to Yale, New York and Europe, to
the early SoHo art world, and back to California." |
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3552
A7654
H5
1985 |
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The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease
From Publisher's Weekly:
"A medieval illuminator with radical views finds himself
sharing quarters with a widow struggling to preserve her independence
in this enthralling historical novel set in the 14th century,
a time of religious strife. " |
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3622
A675
I45
2005 |
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Jan & Catharina: A Novella by Michael Tobias
About Vermeer and Holland. |
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3570
O28
J36
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Lust for Life by Irving Stone
"... a fictionalized biography of the Dutch painter, Vincent
Van Gogh and is based primarily on his three volumes of letters
to his brother, Theo." |
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3537
T669
L8 |
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My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
From the Wall Street Journal:
"Original, deeply moving story of Asher Lev, the religious
boy with an overwhelming need to draw, to paint, to render the
world he knows and the pain he feels, on canvas for everyone
to see." |
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3566
O69
M85 |
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A Painter of Our Time by John Berger
From Amazon.com
"Here, for the first -- and as far as I know -- the only
time, is a novel which accurately reflects the lifestyle and
technical considerations of the typical working artist: a highly
skilled professional without a "name". This book says it all.
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6052
E564
P35 |
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The Passion Dream Book by Whitney Otto
From Amazon.com
"...a story that shifts from the Italian Renaissance to
the Harlem Renaissance of 1930s America....A young Florentine
girl spies on the artist Michelangelo while he sculpts the "David"
in his studio and aspires herself to create art. Then we jump
to the 20th century, where a descendant faces the quest to become
an artist herself." |
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3565
T795
P37
1997 |
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The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
From Publishers Weekly:
"Narrated in the wise, candid first-person voice of Italian
painter Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653), the novel tells the
story of Gentileschi's life and career in Renaissance Italy." |
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3572
R34
P37 |
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Utrillo's Mother by Sarah Baylis
From the cover:
Although little is known today, except in a footnote to (male)
art history as the mother of Maruice Utrillo, Suzanne Valadon
was a talented painter in her own right. Now Sarah Baylis has
recreated the lost life of this singular woman is a novel that
is fierce and darkly comic."
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6052
A878
1990 |
Art Fiction in the Collection
