Fictions of Art History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Compelling Fictions -- Part One: Entanglements -- Weightless History: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt -- A Novelist among Artists: Gordon Burn and "Young British Art" -- Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian -- The Case of the Errant Art Historian -- Part Two: Not Who You Think I Am -- Face to Face with Fiction: Portraiture and the Biographical Tradition -- "I Am Not Who You Think I Am": Attributing the Humanist Portrait, Identifying the Art-Historical Subject -- Fictional Deceptions: A True Story -- The Art-Historical Photograph as Fiction: The Pretense of Objectivity -- Part Three: Artists, Stories, Objects -- "The Reality Bodily before Us": Picturing the Arabian Nights -- The Ekphrastic O -- Anecdotes and the Life of Art History -- The Text is Present -- Contributors -- Photography Credits.
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