Alive in Shape and Color : : 17 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Alive
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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Safety rules / Jill D. Block -- Pierre, Lucien, and me / Lee Child -- Girl with a fan / Nicholas Christopher -- The third panel / Michael Connelly -- A significant find / Jeffery Deaver -- Charlie the barber / Joe R. Lansdale -- After Georgia O'Keeffe's flower / Gail Levin -- Ampurdan / Warren Moore -- Orange is for anguish, blue for insanity / David Morrell -- Les Beaux Jours / Joyce Carol Oates -- Truth comes out of her well to shame mankind / Thomas Pluck -- The great wave / S. J. Rozan -- Thinkers / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Gaslight / Jonathan Santlofer -- Blood in the Sun / Justin Scott -- The big town / Sarah Weinman -- Looking for David / Lawerence Block.
"In his brilliant follow-up to In Sunlight or In Shadow, Lawrence Block has gathered together the best talent from popular fiction to produce an anthology as inventive as it is alluring, including Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, David Morrell, and Jeffery Deaver." -- Amazon.com.
Any number of artists have produced evocative work, paintings that could trigger a literary response. For this collection, each author was invited to select a painting-- from the cave drawings at Lascaux to a contemporary abstract canvas on which the paint has barely dried-- and write a story. Each story is accompanied in color by the work of art that inspired it.
Contents: Safety rules. -- Pierre, Lucien, and me. -- Girl with a fan. -- Third panel. -- Significant find. -- Charlie the barber. -- After Georgia O'Keefe's flower. -- Ampurdan. -- Orange is for anguish, blue for insanity. -- Beaux jours.

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Strong Anthology submitted by Meginator on June 16, 2018, 6:08pm The stories in this collection take their inspiration from pieces of visual art and it’s a lot of fun to see the different ways in which the authors interpret the prompt, using everything from cave paintings to familiar oil canvases and Michelangelo’s David as the basis for their mystery stories. Though too many take the easy route and center their stories around art and artists, the stories are good enough, on balance, to counteract this repetition. I wished for more heists, but was pleasantly surprised by the ways in which the authors examine some of the deepest aspects of the human experience. This is an unusually strong anthology with a nice, engaging variety of takes on connections between life and art.