2. The painter in fiction

The painter in fiction is a motif that has long since inspired scholarly writing internationally. Besides the wealth of shorter critical essays on single literary works featuring artists, among the more consistent critical monographs uncovering the painter as a literary type are Theodor R. Bowie’s The Painter in French Fiction (Bowie 1950); Maurice Beebe’s Ivory Towers and Sacred Founts. The Artist as Hero in Fiction from Goethe to Joyce (Beebe 1964); Herbert Marcuse’s doctoral dissertation f.