Talented emerging fiction writers find inspiration in one of the most famous paintings in New York\u2019s Frick Collection: Jean-August-Dominique Ingres\u2019s Comtesse d\u2019Haussonville from 1845.<\/p>\n
Following the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, The Sleeve Should Be Illegal and Cocktails with a Curator, this anthology of newly commissioned texts from graduate students in New York University\u2019s Creative Writing Program pays homage to one of the institution\u2019s most celebrated paintings.<\/p>\n
Gathered here are fourteen fictional stories inspired by one of Ingres\u2019s most captivating portrait paintings. A detail of the work\u2014the fine silk dress, a red ribbon, a shawl casually draped over the arm of a chair, the contents of a tabletop, the contemplative pose\u2014is the starting point for each story. The pieces range from gothic tales that take place at the time of the painting in the mid-nineteenth century and stories that use the countess as a key character to a present-day ghost story and inventive sagas that take representations of the countess to faraway lands: Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, India, and a heaven that is populated solely by Black people.<\/p>\n
The faculty adviser for the project is best-selling novelist Darin Strauss, who writes the book\u2019s introduction. Illustrated with Ingres\u2019s famous portrait as well as with many lush details, this one-of-a-kind volume is an ode, both traditional and postmodern, to a glorious work of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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