David Maroto – The Artist's Novel: A New Medium Knowledge Editions 'The Foreign Painter'

'The Foreign Painter'

white on black

for waiting or for movement

each letter of the alphabet evokes a particular word related to the world of exhibition making: from D (Durational) and S (Scenography) to R (Relational) and F (Feminism)

This volume has been written from the perspective of art as practice

David Maroto – The Artist's Novel: A New Medium Knowledge Editions 'The Foreign Painter'Why do artists write novels? What impact does the artists novel have on the visual arts? How should such a novel be experienced? In recent years, there has been a proliferation of visual artists who create novels as part of their broader art practice. They do so in order to address artistic issues by means of novelistic devices, favouring a sort of art predicated on process and subjectivity, introducing notions such as fiction, narrative, and