im looking for books about painters

>>8795959
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

gogol has a real good story about a painter, i think it's called the portrait?

>>8795959
Honoré de Balzac - The Unknown Masterpiece

mein kampf

>>8795974
that looks real interesting and is definitely what im looking for

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it's a short-story rather than a novel, but check out Ravissante by Robert Aickman. the story is about a painter, but there's some name-dropping of actual painters as well.

Fictional painters, too?

I'd rec "My Name is Asher Lev"

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>>8795959
the moon and sixpence by w somerset maugham

Van Gogh's Letters

Related for all its wonderful painterly energy - Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art

The Recognitions, Picture of Dorian Grey, à l'ombre jeunes filles en fleurs

>>8795984
L'Œuvre by Zola would probably be worth looking into as well

The Recognitions is amazing and has exactly what you're looking for

Fictional or nonfictional?
If fictional - Miroslav Krleža - The Return of Filip Latinovicz
It's like a really, really fucked up Proust

>>8796165
i was thinking more non fiction

Has anyone read Dali's novel?

>>8795959

Lust for Life, by Irving Stone
(about Van Gogh)

>>8796334
i know he has a book on drawing

The Map and the Territory - Houellebecq

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>>8795959

>>8795959
Every Man's Library has a nice short story collection about artists and painters.

One of Vonnegut's novels, I forget which.

Life: A User's Manual

The Aesthetics of Resistance. It's a largely unknown, outside of germany that is, masterpiece in which discussion of art, especially paintings, plays a central role.

salvador dali wrote several books. the one most about painting would be 50 secrets of magic craftsmanship

Acute Misfortune by Erik Jensen

>>8796334
Yes, it was on the edge of fancy purple prose and insanity the whole time. Fun, but he should have stuck to painting.

>>8795959
Duma Key by Stephen King

>>8795959
Deleuze on Francis Bacon is very good.

>>8799963
you can get it free from bookzz, 'Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation'

>>8795959
Hell screen by Akutagawa

Therese Raquin

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>>8795981
underrated post

The Recognitions, of course
John Berger - A Painter of Our Time

>>8796019
>w somerset maugham
also
of human bondage

>>8796713
bluebeard.

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>>8795959