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Art in novels: “The Illogic of Kassel”, aka the Avant-Garde’s decline, by Enrique Vila-Matas

by Antonio Carnevale

The critic is alive. The critic is dead. Around the status of the art critic there is an endless debate,...

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Art in novels: Utz, by Bruce Chatwin

by Stefano Pirovano

Do images demand their own destruction? Here is what Bruce Chatwin and Kaspar Utz has to tell us about art...

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Art in novels: Kurt Vonnegut and the most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism

The most comprehensive definition of the Abstract Expressionism’s highest achievements is given by the painter Rabo Karabekian, main character of...

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Art in novels: pinpointed one of Isaac Brest’s most enigmatic sources

by Stefano Pirovano

We had to visit two buildings under construction before understanding, but finally we have pinpointed the fragment of reality where...

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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 169.5 x 216.5 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

Art in novels: the responsive eye of novelist Donna Tartt reading the Rembrandt’s masterpiece

After Donna Tartt‘s description of one of the rare Carel Fabritius‘s canvases we posted two days ago in relation with...

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Art in novels: from “Letters to a young novelist” by Mario Vargas Llosa to Rudolf Stingel’s alpine landscapes

Dear Friend, Ernest Hemingway says somewhere that at the beginning of his writing career it suddenly occur to him that...

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Art in Novels: Siri Hustvedt, “What I loved” (2003)

by Stefano Pirovano

Leo Hertzberg, the main character of this sophisticated novel, is an art historian. His best friend, Bill Weschler, is an...

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Art in novels: when José Saramago wrote about Valeriano Trubbiani

by Stefano Pirovano

A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and...

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Art in novels: with “The real thing” Henry James grabs the essence of being an artist

by Stefano Pirovano

The narrator of “The real thing” is a painter and this short novel, published in 1892, is dedicated to his...

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Art in novels: “the art we produce lives in queasy balance with the art we can imagine, the art the room expects”

  Peter Harris is an art dealer, his wife Rebecca is the editor of an art magazine; Mizzy, the complicated...

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Art in novels: “An Object of Beauty”, by Steve Martin, actor and collector

An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another...

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Art in Novels: In Venice visiting the Scuola Grande di San Rocco high on cocaine (according to Geoff Dyer)

Tintoretto worked at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco from 1564 to 1588, producing an impressive cycle of 52 paintings...

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Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk: art novels and egoistic collectors (an interview)

by Stefano Pirovano

In occasion of the Museum of Innocence's exhibition at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan Orhan Pamuk discusses with CFA...

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Art novels: visual art according to writers

by Stefano Pirovano

A list of novels explaining visual art, artists and collectors better than any art critic book

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Frans Maseree

At the show with artist: Elena Ricci encounters Frans Masereel

by Elena Ricci*

Frans Masereel presents us with an intensely personal vision of life. It is a vision which shows an understanding of...

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Art collectors at Art Basel, Basel, 2018. Ph. Stefano Pirovano.

The 7 books every art collector should read

by Stefano Pirovano

Dear art collector, here a selection of books intended to inspire your next steps.

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The top 10 art movies list

by Maria do Carmo de Pontes

Are you fed up with shy art critics and self-referential art journalism? Our art movies list could help you to...

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Buck Ellison

Rising artists to watch: Buck Ellison

by Carlo Prada

Born in San Francisco and graduated at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Buck Ellison is one of the strongest voices now...

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Do we have reasons to like a work of art? Philosopher Derek Parfit had an answer

by Piero Bisello

2017 is the year where the philosophy community lost one of its acclaimed members, Derek Parfit, considered by many the...

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Siri Hustvedt’ “The Blazing world”: a generous art novel dedicated to masks and undervalued artists

by Stefano Pirovano

To be added to the list of 25 art novels that we published a few months ago in response to...

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