{"product_id":"regarding-ingres-fourteen-short-stories","title":"Regarding Ingres: Fourteen Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eTalented emerging fiction writers find inspiration in one of the most famous paintings in New York’s Frick Collection: Jean-August-Dominique Ingres’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eComtesse d’Haussonville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efrom 1845. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the successful literary musings on art at the Frick, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sleeve Should Be Illegal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCocktails with a Curator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this anthology of newly commissioned texts from graduate students in New York University’s Creative Writing Program pays homage to one of the institution’s most celebrated paintings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGathered here are fourteen fictional stories inspired by one of Ingres’s most captivating portrait paintings. A detail of the work—the fine silk dress, a red ribbon, a shawl casually draped over the arm of a chair, the contents of a tabletop, the contemplative pose—is the starting point for each story. The pieces range from gothic tales that take place at the time of the painting in the mid-nineteenth century and stories that use the countess as a key character to a present-day ghost story and inventive sagas that take representations of the countess to faraway lands: Poland, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, India, and a heaven that is populated solely by Black people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe faculty adviser for the project is best-selling novelist Darin Strauss, who writes the book’s introduction. Illustrated with Ingres’s famous portrait as well as with many lush details, this one-of-a-kind volume is an ode, both traditional and postmodern, to a glorious work of art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260191490197,"sku":"9780789346407","price":17.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2315\/6715\/files\/9780789346407.jpg?v=1776259562","url":"https:\/\/shop.artsmia.org\/products\/regarding-ingres-fourteen-short-stories","provider":"The Store at Mia - Minneapolis Institute of Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}