The novel Headlong by Michael Frayn (author of the brilliant farce Noises Off) is about the discovery of a Bruegel. William Gaddis' The Recognitions is a Faust story about a young man who wants to become a painter but gets lured into forging old masters instead. It's very long, very worth reading, and contains a virtuoso scene of a New York art party of the late Forties or early Fifties. I'm sure there are dozens of others.

Larry

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Hi Sara,
How about the novel by Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, featuring the fictional artist Gully Jimson (1942?)?  See article on NPR  < http://www.npr.org/2011/07/06/137044181/an-artists-life-tough-toilsome-and-tiring-times >.
                Best, Marilyn
 
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Dear ARLIS-L,
 
A faculty member has asked me about works of fiction with creativity as the subject. Any suggestions?
 
We have titles with artists--fiction and painters--drama as the subject, but perhaps you have a favorite you'd like to recommend.
 
Sara MacDonald
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The University of the Arts
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