Modern Art: A Novel

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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.

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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. 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.

In the vibrant downtown Manhattan art world of the s, a series of love affairs has left Joanna Gold, a young photographer, feeling numbed. Then, at a party, a painter named Tom Murphy walks up to her. Rather than another brief collision, their relationship is the profound and ecstatic love each had longed to find.

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Tom, both tender and volatile, draws Joanna into the unwinnable struggle against the forces that drive him toward death. En route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah.

But the kidnappers soon discover that there is a greater treasure onboard.

After the captured plane sets down in a remote Dutch farming collective by the sea, events go rapidly and frighteningly awry. As negotiations with government agencies stall, concerns over rare artwork threaten to trump the regard for human life, and both captors and captives will face bitter truths about their conflicting values, manners, and ideologies as the ticking clock races inexorably toward an explosive endgame.

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Want more books like The Goldfinch? Sign up for the Early Bird Books newsletter and get the best daily ebook deals delivered straight to your inbox. Inspired by the lives of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, this is a novel of betrayal and longing, renunciation and self-discovery: Belle Prokoff is the last of a famous generation of painters. She is also the widow of Clay Madden, who revolutionized American art, became a near-mythic figure, and died in a drunken car crash.

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She has also persevered with her painting while the art scene fawns over her, not for her own work but for the valuable Madden canvases she clings to. An only child raised to become a dutiful wife, Astha is filled with unnamed longings and untapped potential. In the privacy of her middle-class Indian home, she dreams of the lover who will touch her soul.

But her future was mapped out long ago: The Art of Mark Ryden: Anima Mundi Hardcover by Mark Ryden. Nathan Oliveira Paperback by Peter Selz.

Second, in its endeavour to portay reality as it appears to our senses, it becomes the art of pregressively thinner and more illusory surfaces instead of reflecting the essence of sensory phenomena. Thus it is destined to become ever more superficial, puerile, empty and misleading.

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Third, in its quest for sensory and sensational 'hits', for stimulation and excitement as the necessary conditions for sensory enjoyment, it is increasingly and fatally deflected from positive to negative phenomena — from ordinary types and events to those which are pathological, from the fresh air of normal socio-cultural reality to the social sewers, until it becomes a museum of pathology and of negative aspects of sensory reality.

Fourth, its charming diversity impels it to seek ever-greater variety, until all harmony, unity and balance are submerged in an ocean of incoherency and chaos.

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Fifth, this diversity, together with the effort to give pleasure, and to stimulate, leads to an increasing complication of technical means; and this, in turn, tends to make of these instrumentalities an end in themselves — one which is pursued to the detriment of the inner value and quality of fine arts. Sixth, sensate art, as we have seen, is the art of the professional artists creating for the public.

Such specialization, while in itself a distintic advantage, results, in the later phases of sensate culture, in the separation of artists from the community — a factor from whichboth parties suffer, as well as the fine arts themselves. There are many artists and musicians who grew up as lonely kids in the desert with nothing to do, and who chose to channel their focus inward. In the Mojave Desert, numinous, mystical experiences are not as rare as one might think.

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