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Novels About Art, Artists and The Art World
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June 2001
Compiled by Penny Stevens
of Centreville Regional Library from contributions by the members of Fiction_L, updated by
Jennifer Hance
of Belleview (FL) Library
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
- Adler, Warren The Immaculate Deception
- Atwood, Margaret Cat's Eye
- Caroline, a renown Canadian artist, has a retrospective show and looks back at the painful past among her childhood peers.
- Bernardi, Adria The Day Laid on the Alter
- Brust, Stephen The Sun, The Moon And The Stars
- The problems of an artist are contrapuncted by events and
personalities in an embedded Hungarian fairy tale told in
sections throughout the work.
- Cheuse, Alan The Light Possessed
- A mythologized and improvized life of Georgia O'Keefe.
- Chevalier, Tracy Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Cooperstein, Claire. Johanna: A Novel of The Van Gogh Family
- Theo Van Gogh's young widow's struggles to preserve Vincent's art and legacy are told through imaginary letters and diaries.
- Davies, Robertson What's Bred In The Bone
- Delinsky, Barbara Coast Road
- DeLint, Charles Memory and Dream
- An urban fantasy about an artist with a great deal of insight into both the creative process and the student/teacher relationship ( in the Svengali mode).
- Ebershoff, David The Danish Girl
- Elkins, Aaron Deceptive Clarity, Old Scores
- Chris Norgren, a young museum curator is the amateur sleuth
in this mystery series set in the art world.
- Loot
- Farrington, Tim Blues for Hannah
- Gaddis, William The Recognitions
- Godwin, Gail Violet Clay
- A Young woman fresh from art school, flushed with the promise of life as an artist can only find work designing covers of romance novels.
- Gordon, Mary Spending
- An artist finds her "muse" in a rich businessman who is willing to support her so she can pursue her art without outside distractions.
- Gurganus, Allan Plays Well With Others
- Three young gifted people meet in NYC in the high living 1980s and become caught up in the art world, drugs and AIDS.
- Hitchcock, Jane Stanton Trick of The Eye
- A specialist in trompel'oeil learns that illusion is more
than a paianter's trick: for some it is a way of life.
- Ishiguro, Kozuo An Artist of The Floating World
- A Japanese artist and his two daughters are in conflict over
changing values in Postwar Japan.
- Just, Ward Ambition & Love
- A talented and driven young painter faces the question of whether ambition and love are mutually exclusive or two sides of the same coin.
- Kennedy, William Very Old Bones
- Kernan, Michael The Lost Diaries of Frans Hals
- A contemporary researcher discovers the diaries of Hals and takes us back to the life of the seventeenth century Dutch painter.
- King, Joan The Impressionist
- A fictionalized account of Mary Cassatt's life.
- Krentz, Jayne Ann Lost & Found
- Laker, Rosalind The Golden Tulip
- Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers
- A sensitive young artist with a strong bond to his mother finds it impossible to establish a relationship with another woman.
- Lindsey, David Animosity
- Lynn, Elizabeth A Different Light
- An artist's work adapts to demands and opportunities presented by a new planet with different qualities of light.
- Malcolm, John Hung Over: A Tim Simpson Mystery
- Maugham, W. Somerset The Moon and Sixpence
- The fictionalized account of Paul Gaugin's decision to leave
his middle class existence and head for the South Pacific to paint.
- Mayle, Peter Chasing Cezanne
- A comedic adventure in the world of French art forgery and fraud with a dash of romance thrown in.
- Maguire, Gregory Confessions of an ugly stepsister
- Malcolm, John Hung Over
- McAuley, Paul Pasquale's Angel
- Moggach, Deborah Tulip Fever
- Mortman, Doris True Colors
- An aristocratic Spanish artist gets involved in international intrigue.
- Noah, Robert The man who stole the Mona Lisa
- Nykanen, Mark Hush
- Otto, Whitney The Passion Dream Book
- An ambitious young photographer faces difficult choices on her lifelong journey to artistic fulfillment.
- Pears, Iain Giotto's Hand, The Bernini Bust, The Raphael Affair
- General Bottando of the Ilaian National Art Theft Squad is the detective in this series set in the Italian art scene.
- Piercy, Marge Summer People
- A long time menage a trois falls apart when one of them becomes discontented.
- Potok, Chaim My Name Is Asher Lev
- A sensitive Orthodox Jew who becomes a painter is exiled from his Hasidic community and his family because of his work.
- The Gift of Asher Lev
After a self imposed exile the successful painter returns to his closely knit religious community and experiences a spiritual and professional crisis.
- Ramus, David Thief of Light
- A fast paced novel that delves into the violence and corruption surrounding international art forgeries.
- The Gravity of Shadows
- Reiden, Frederick The Odd Sea
- A family copes with the disappearance of one of its members.
- Roberts, Nora Homeport
- A killer is stalking a beautiful international art authenticator.
- See, Carolyn The Handyman
- Shames, Laurence Scavenger Reef
- Skeggs, Douglas The Phoenix of Prague
- Stevermer, Caroline When the King comes home
- Stone, Irving The Agony and The Ecstasy
- A fictionalized and idealized version of the life of Michelangelo.
- Stone, Irving Depths of Glory
- A fictionalized story of Camille Pissarro that portrays his struggles as well as his role in the Impressionionism
Movement.
- Lust For Life
A fictionalized life of Vincent Van Gogh.
- Swan, Thomas The Da Vinci Deception
- Toynton, Evelyn Modern Art
- Urquhart, JaneThe Underpainter
- A minimalist painter looks back on his life and the people who were important to him while unveiling his inability to love them.
- Van Adler, T.C. St. Agatha's Breast
- Vreeland, Susan Girl in Hyacinth Blue
- Watkins, Paul The Forger
- Weber, Katharine The Music Lesson
- West, Morris Vanishing Point
- An artist is asked to temporarily abandon his work and life style to search for his disappeared brother-in-law.
- Wharton, WilliamLast Lovers
- A middle aged American leaves his corporate career for a chance to find himself as an artist in Paris.
- Scumbler
A sixtyish American expatriate artist wanders around Paris looking for the perfect scene to paint and having all manner of adventures.
- Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Woolf, Virginia To The Lighthouse
- Lily's evolving canvas parallels the devolution of the family and house
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