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The Artist’s Novel

The Book Lovers is a research project on the phenomenon of the artist’s novel curated by David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska. The central question is how a literary genre like the novel can be considered a medium in its own right within the visual arts, as video or installation could be. There have been artists throughout the 20th century who wrote novels as an activity more or less detached from their visual art production.

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However, in recent years, an increasing number of artists have begun to integrate their novels as a fundamental part of their visual art projects. Surprisingly, there is a lack of research on this subject. This circumstance gives rise to a situation in which artists who write novels are not aware of others doing the same. With The Book Lovers we are intending to create public awareness of this silently widespread artistic trend. The project develops in a number of different stages. Its base is the creation of a collection of artist’s novels with a parallel online database, both supported by M HKA. This is complemented with a series of exhibitions and public programmes, pop-up bookstores, commissions, and publications.

There are many ways to navigate the artist’s novels database. You can start by the artist’s index:

Noor AbuarafehEtel AdnanRouzbeh AkhbariSophia Al-MariaCarl AndreAlain Arias-MissonKarin ArinkEduardo ArroyoImma AvalosMichael AyrtonTxomin BadiolaHugo BallFiona BannerStephen BanzMaria BarnasJennifer BartlettCara BenedettoBernadette CorporationThe BERTY team (Angela Su et al.)Gerry BibbySimon BillTonje Bøe Birkeland, Hannah BlackJimbo BlachlyLuther BlissettPaul BogaersMaxime BonduJean de BosschèreJoe BrainardMatthew BrannonAA BronsonEvelin BrosiFrédéric Bruly BouabréWojciech BruszewskiKathe BurkhartZachary CahillSophie Calle and Paul AusterPaco CaoBarbara CardinaleLeonora CarringtonBrian CatlingAlex CecchettiJake ChapmanIvan ChengGiorgio de ChiricoBilly ChyldishSebastian CichockiTyler CoburnGuy de CointetDavid ColosiIthell ColquhounJasper CoppesErin CosgroveDouglas CouplandJan CremerE.E. CummingsKeren CytterSalvador DalíBert DanckaertHenry Joseph DargerOskar DawickiConstance DeJongEric DoeringerChristian DotremontLaura EdbrookAndreas EjikssonScott ElliottTracey EminSteven EmmanuelPam Emmeriketeam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger)Tim EtchellsEveryone AgreesDavid EvrardÖyvind FahlströmMatias FaldbakkenLeonor FiniSusan FinlayCharles Henri FordGregory ForstnerNicholas FrankAnnabel FrearsonKlemens GasserMark GeffriaudVerónica Gerber BicecciJef GeysTom GidleyLiam GillickDan GilsdorfJérémie GindreUnni GjertsenGoldin+SennebyRodney GrahamAlasdair GrayRenée GreenSabine Groschup, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Heather GuertinDeniz GülJosé Gutiérrez-SolanaBrion GysinTheresa Hak Kyung ChaSamuel HaslerRaoul HausmannRichard HawkinsPaul HaworthHallgrímur HelgasonPablo HelgueraEmmy HenningsNick HermanLouise Hervé and Chloé MailletPati HillNorman James HoggWill HolderStewart HomeErica van HornIsidore IsouGuillermo IusoMarla JacarillaŁukasz JastrubczakTravis JeppesenLisa JonassonMiranda JulyChristopher K. HoStephen KaltenbachSamson KambaluIlja KarilampiPhyllis KiehlSharon KivlandPierre KlossowskiEmily KockenJutta KoetherJoseph KosuthArno KramerSyd KrochmalnyRaziye KubatAlfred KubinYayoi KusamaFernanda LagunaPeter LemmensNorman LetoJana LeoEdouard LevéWyndham LewisDavid LieskeLittle WarsawAlex LlovetGareth LongKiba LumbergJill MagidErwan MahéoDavid MarotoRita McBrideTom McCarthyAndrea McGinty, Barry McHamonLucy McKenzieBjarne MelgaardAlan MichaelHarland MillerMomusSean MonahanAndrei MonastyrskyHeather & Ivan MorisonSimon MorrisWilliam MorrisValérie MréjenAriane MüllerDavid MusgraveHayley NewmanTrong Gia NguyenErik NiedlingKrzysztof NiemczykIngo NiermannEmil NoldeFilip NoterdaemeLeticia ObeidGary O’ConnorBrian O’DohertyTom O’SullivanKambui OlujimiKatrina PalmerStefan PanhasPhilippe ParrenoPathetic Sympathy SeekersFrancesco PedraglioPavel PeppersteinMai-Thu PerretGrayson PerryPHILIP team (Heman Chong et al.)Tom PhillipsFrancis PicabiaKit PoulsonDavid PriceSeth PriceRichard PrincePSJMErnesto PujolReto PulferCheng RanSal RandolphGraham RawleJannie RegnerusKaren ReimerHubert RenardStuart RingholtDavid RobbinsJuan Carlos RodrÍguezPedro G. RomeroRoee RosenRichard RothRomy Rüegger, Allen Ruppersberg, Christopher RussellPepo SalazarPjeroo RoobjeDenis SavaryArnold SchalksBoris SchatzBruno SchulzJoshua SchwebelKurt SchwittersDana SederowskyLindsay SeersJack SegbarsQ.S. SerafijnBenjamin SerorLytle ShawEric SimonAlexandre SinghSocieté RealisteSuzy SpenceCally SpoonerLisa StålspetsMaria Stangret KantorDan StarlingLinda StupartElaine SturtevantWładysław Strzemiński, Robert Szczerbowski, Mathilde SupeVibeke TandbergDorothea TanningJoanne TathamMichael TedjaMaija TimonenNicoline TimmerRoland ToporFrancesc TorresThu-Van TranOscar TuazonParker TylerLinn Cecilie UlvinFélix VallottonSarah VanheeHannu VäisänenStijn VerhoeffGavin WadeCiarán WalshAndy WarholMark WaughAi Weiwei Julia WeistStanisław Ignacy WitkiewiczDale Edwin Wittig, Jacob WrenJack B. YeatsUnica ZürnMiek Zwamborn

Creative Strategy

Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives Artworks Biographical Origin Artworks Cite Novel Fictional Artist Creates Artworks Multimedia Novel No Link to Artworks Novel Art Object Novel Cites Artworks Novel Score for Performance Novel Writes Itself Open Process Performance Generates Novel Reading Performance Research Novel Rewriting Existing Novel Rewriting Film Theater Piece Generates Novel

Authorship

Anonymous Authorship Artist Author Fictional Author Fictional Ghost Writer   Ghost Writer Collective Authorship  Appropriation/Collage

Genre

Absurdist Analytic fiction Autobiography Automatic Writing  Adventures Bildungsroman Biography Comedy Detectives Diagrams Diary Documentary Fiction Drama Epic Epistolary Erotic/Pornographic Essayist Biographical Fiction Fantasy Fictocriticism Fictitious reference work Gamebook Gothic Handbook Historical fiction Historical non-fiction Historical Romance Horror Interview Invented Language Künstlerroman Melodrama Memoir Metafiction Mystery Pataphisical Novel Plain Fiction  Portrait Prose Poetry Roman à clef Romance Satire Science-Fiction Self-help Set theory Speculative Fiction Surrealist Thriller Tragic Farce  Travelogue Uchronia

Theme

1960s Abjection Accidents Activism Affect Africa Afterlife AIDS American Culture Anarchism Animism Art Art World Astronomy Bad Form Biopolitics Birds Bisexuality British Culture Capitalism Chance Childhood Class Claustrophobia Climate Change Chaos Theory Citizenship Colours Communism Community Control Conspiracy Crime Crisis Culture Industry Customs Cynicism Death Decadence Desire Dichotomies Disintegration Dreams Drugs Ecstasy Education System Enchantment Everyday Exile Life Exotism Exploitation Fame Family Secrets Fantasy Feelings Feminism Fetishism Film Formalism Freedom Friendship Frustration Games Geography Ghosts Global Commons History Hollywood Holograms Homosexuality Hormuz Hospitality Humor Identity Illness Intrigue Iranian Politics Isolation Japanese Culture Landscape Law Librarianship/Library Science Love Magic Mass Media Memory Mental Illness Money Motherhood Museography Music Mystery Mysticism Myth Mythology Navigation Nightlife Nihilism Objects Obsession Offshore Business Paranoia Parody Party Performance Performative Language Perverse Sexuality Philosophy Photography Play Poetry Politics Pornography Post-Apocalyptic Post-Humanism Post-Soviet Culture Poverty Prison Prostitution Protocol Psychedelic Mundane Racism Rape Religion Repetition Revenge Rituals Rumour Russian Culture Science Scottish Culture Sculpture Secret Societies Seduction Sex Sexuality Socio-Political Critic Sports States of the Self Subjective Experience Survival Systems Theory Technology Therapy Time Time travel Transgender Transgression Identity Transvestism Travels Truth Utopian Worlds Value Vaudeville Vicarious Experiences Violence War Weather

Publishing

Art Books Publishing House Art Gallery Digital Format  Magazine Publisher  Non-profit Art Organization Print-On-Demand Public Institution Publishing House  Self-Publishing  Unpublished

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