Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Compelling Fictions vii
4. Part One: Entanglements
5. Weightless History: Faulkner, Bourke-White, and Eisenstaedt 3
6. A Novelist among Artists: Gordon Burn and “Young British Art” 21
7. Philip Marlowe Meets the Art Historian 34
8. The Case of the Errant Art Historian 45
9. Part Two: Not Who You Think I Am
10. Face to Face with Fiction: Portraiture and the Biographical Tradition 71
11. “I Am Not Who You Think I Am”: Attributing the Humanist Portrait, Identifying the Art-Historical Subject 87
12. Fictional Deceptions: A True Story 104
13. The Art-Historical Photograph as Fiction: The Pretense of Objectivity 118
14. Part Three: Artists, Stories, Objects
15. “The Reality Bodily before Us”: Picturing the Arabian Nights 141
16. The Ekphrastic O 162
17. Anecdotes and the Life of Art History 173
18. The Text is Present 187
19. Contributors 203
20. Photography Credits 207