Creative Writing and Art History

Creative Writing and Art History considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing. Essays range from the analysis of historical examples of art historical writing that have a creative element to examinations of contemporary modes of creative writing about art.

• Considers the ways in which the writing of art history intersects with creative writing
• Covers a diverse subject matter, from late Neolithic stone circles to the writing of a sentence by Flaubert
• The collection both contains essays that survey the topic as well as more specialist articles
• Brings together specialist contributors from both sides of the Atlantic

Catherine Grant is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-ordinated the Writing Art History project at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Patricia Rubin and is the co-editor (with Lori Waxman) of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011). 

Patricia Rubin is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Art History and the author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (1995),Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999), and Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007), and co-author of  Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999).