Modern Art: A Novel

C ountless novels depict the fictionalized life of a real artist, or the artistic life of a fictional one.

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A quick scan of the literature shows that the writerly gaze has been most often turned on male artists and their creative processes and passions. Novelists also seem to have taken a noticeable interest in women in the arts. Many of these eleven books were published in the last few years. The type of artist varies; there are dancers, painters, writers, and singers.

In some, the characters are entirely invented.

All seek to capture not just the life and work of one woman, but the process of becoming an artist. The artwork was painted by Sara de Vos, who Smith based on one of the real, though rare, female members of a 17th century Dutch masters guild. Jumping between Holland, New York, and Sydney, this novel intertwines the life of two passionate women painters who have much in common, despite living three hundred years apart.

Thanks to her fluid, free-moving dance performances, Isadora Duncan is known as one of the founders of modern dance.

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Elaine Risley is a middle-aged Canadian painter whose past comes bubbling up when she attends a retrospective of her work in Toronto. The Shadids are smart and world-traveled, so when the wife, who is a respected artist, invites Nora to share her studio space, Nora is thrilled.

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In one thread, Woolf herself struggles with finding an opening to the beginning of her novel, Mrs. The similarities end there, however. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf. This is shown through constantly shifting narrative perspectives, somewhat like the turning beam of a lighthouse.

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James. How they want to see you. The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner.

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The Flamethrowers made quite an impression following its release. Earlier this year Margaret Atwood submitted the manuscript for Scribbler Moon , a book no one living today will likely ever get to read. David Mitchell is next up in the Future Library catalogue.

Katie Paterson, I implore you. The Woman Upstairs Claire Messud. These all come to the surface when the narrator meets the person she always dreamed she would be.

Master of the Eclipse

Ishiguro is the undisputed master of nostalgia, memory come undone, and the unreliable narrator. The Goldfinch Donna Tartt. You didn't think you'd make it through the list without this one, did you? But that very drama makes a nearly hundred-page opus centered on a theft of a Dutch Golden Age painting a perfect summer read.