Art-inspired fiction

Description
Stories/poetry inspired by works of art. (For this list, please exclude historical fiction about the origins of famous artworks or the artists who created them, as well as "lost artwork" mysteries.)
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The Matisse Stories
by A. S. Byatt
1,283 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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A Wild Ride Through the Night
by Walter Moers
652 members
18 reviews
3.8
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Heart to Heart : New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art
by Jan Greenberg
359 members
8 reviews
4.1
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In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper
by Lawrence Block
287 members
16 reviews
4.1
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Chance Developments: Stories
by Alexander McCall Smith
236 members
12 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Gardens of Delight
by Ian Watson
96 members
1 review
½ 2.7
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The Poetry of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper
by Gail Levin
59 members
1 review
3.8
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Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People
by Tarnya Cooper
51 members
4 reviews
4.1
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The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art
by John Hollander
42 members
½ 4.5
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The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell) (Burning Deck Fiction)
by Robert Coover
42 members
½ 3.5
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Morning, Paramin
by Derek Walcott
38 members
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14
Turner: New and Selected Poems
by David Dabydeen
37 members
1 review
½ 2.3
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From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings
by Lawrence Block
33 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
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Dispatches from Moments of Calm
by Alexander Kluge
31 members
1
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Edward Hopper: Poems A Bilingual Edition
by Ernest Farrés
27 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Explanations
bluepiano: Interesting to learn jere there's more than one poetry collection devoted to Hopper's paintings.
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28 Paradises (ekphrasis)
by Patrick Modiano
21 members
½ 2.3
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Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander
by Adam Kirsch
19 members
1 review
3.8
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Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden
by Kwame Dawes
15 members
5
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Metamorphosis (National Gallery London)
by Nicholas Penny
15 members
4
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22
Damen & Herren unter Wasser
by Christoph Ransmayr
8 members
4
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23
The Lover's Progress
by David Solway
4 members
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Art From Art
by Stephen H Soucy
3 members
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In Camera
by Nicholas Royle
3 members
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Am Kap des guten Abends
by Lutz Seiler
3 members
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27
aire: Gedichte
by Birgit Kreipe
1 member
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28
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
23,494 members
1,200 reviews
½ 3.7
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Girl Reading
by Katie Ward
360 members
15 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Sweet Flypaper of Life
by Roy DeCarava
207 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
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Guestbook: Ghost Stories
by Leanne Shapton
122 members
4 reviews
3.8
32
AnimalInside
by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
114 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
33
Side by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World
by Jan Greenberg
71 members
9 reviews
4.1
34
Give Me Your Hand
by Paul Durcan
38 members
3.8
35
Crazy About Women: Poems
by Paul Durcan
38 members
½ 3.4
36
Eye Against Eye
by Forrest Gander
30 members
2 reviews
3.9
37
With a Poet's Eye: A Tate Gallery Anthology
by Patricia Adams
29 members
5
38
Another Language of Flowers
by Dorothea Tanning
26 members
1 review
3.9
39
Still Life
by Ciaran Carson
23 members
4.2
40
Words for Images: A Gallery of Poems
by John Hollander
14 members
41
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems
by Scott Gutterman
11 members
2 reviews
4
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The Wounded Deer: Fourteen Poems After Frida Kahlo
by Pascale Petit
10 members
½ 4.5
43
Out of the picture
by Marion Halligan
7 members
44
Fotoplastikon
by Jacek Dehnel
6 members
4