From Brush Strokes to Key Strokes: Novels about Art & Artists


 

From Brush Strokes to Key Strokes: Novels about Art & Artists: Mary F. Burns, Gayle Feyer, Michael Llewellyn, and Ciji Ware

Thursday, July 11, 7:00 p.m.

Portraits of an Artist, a novel about John Singer Sargent by Mary F. Burns

Floats the Dark Shadow, A Mystery of Paris by Gayle Feyer (writing as Yves Fey)

Creole Son: A Novel of Degas in New Orleans by Michael Llewellyn

 

A Race to Splendor, a novel about architect Julia Morgan and the rebuilding of San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel after the 1906 earthquake by Ciji Ware

 

Writers face a stimulating challenge when they write about art and artists—how to depict a visual medium with only words on a page. How does a writer explore and present the subtleties of color, light, shadow, materials, space and shape? And there’s something else—what if the novel is about a real artist, whose creations are available to everyone online and in books, and thus completely open to comparison and critique?

Kepler’s is pleased to present an exceptional panel of authors to talk about how they grappled with these and many other issues when writing about such artists as Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and architect Julia Morgan, as well as entirely fictional artists who lived during the same era of the exciting new art movements of Impressionism and Art Deco—the latter half of the 19th century and the very beginnings of the 20th century.

Event date: 
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
94025-4349 Menlo Park
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