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Informationen zum Autor KATIE J. VATER is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her published research centers on inter-art dialogues and ekphrasis, in addition to the artist novel and representations of cultural labor. Her current research examines neoliberalism's relationship to literature in Spain, especially after the 2008 financial crisis. Klappentext Between Market and Myth is a study of novels about artists and the art world written in Spain in the years following the Transition to democracy after Francisco Franco’s death. The novels studied portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists’ willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Zusammenfassung Studies select authors - Julio Llamazares, Ángeles Caso, Almudena Grandes, Nieves Herrero, Paloma DÍaz-Mas, Lourdes Ortiz, and Enrique Vila-Matas - whose largely realist novels portray a clash between the myth of artistic freedom and artists' willing recruitment or cooptation by market forces or political influence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Weight of Fame: Memory in Two Contemporary Kü nstlerromane by Ángeles Caso and Julio Llamazares 2 The Postfeminist Turn in the Artist Novel by Women: The Case of Almudena Grandes, Clara Usón, and Nieves Herrero 3 The Art Historian as Neoliberal Subject in Lourdes Ortiz's Las manos de Vel á zquez and Paloma Díaz-Mas's El sue ñ o de Venecia 4 Affiliation Anxiety: Avant-Garde Identity at dOCUMENTA(13) in Enrique Vila-Matas's Kassel no invita la lógica Conclusion Bibliography Index
