Catherine Grant is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She co-ordinated the Writing Art History project at the Courtauld Institute of Art with Patricia Rubin and is the co-editor (with Lori Waxman) of Girls! Girls! Girls! in Contemporary Art (2011). Patricia Rubin is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of Art History and the author of Giorgio Vasari: Art and History (1995),Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999), and Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence (2007), and co-author of  Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (1999).

• 6 Notes on Contributors 8 Chapter 1 'A narrative of what wishes what it wishes it to be': An Introduction to 'Creative Writing and Art History'Catherine Grant22 Chapter 2 Writing Perceptions: The Matter of Words and the Rollright StonesNicholas Chare46 Chapter 3 (Blind Summit) Art Writing, Narrative, Middle VoiceGavin Parkinson66 Chapter 4 Connoisseurship, Painting, and PersonhoodJeremy Melius88 Chapter 5 Under the Hat of the Art Historian: Panofsky, Berenson, WarburgFrancesco Ventrella110 Chapter 6 'The Liar': Fictions of the PersonPatricia Rubin130 Chapter 7 'Scattered notes': Authorship and Originality in Paul Gauguin's Diverses chosesLinda Goddard148 Chapter 8 'Sudden gleams of (f)light': 'Intuition as Method'?Charlotte de Mille166 Chapter 9 Rotten SunC. F. B. Miller190 Chapter 10 Notes on Writing as VertigoSatish Padiyar201 Index

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