A gallery of rogues Peter Carey's wonderful new novel takes as its hero a rascally painter on his uppers. But why have so many writers, from Balzac to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring', been inspired by the visual arts? Tom Rosenthal investigates

The Independent on Sunday | May 28, 2006| | Copyright

There are in my view far too many novels about writers and writing, most of which inevitably end like the oozlum bird, a mythical creature beloved of army drill sergeants, which flies around in ever decreasing circles until it finally disappears up its own fundament.

The attraction of the visual artist on the other hand seems endless. There are a number of novelists who also write art criticism - Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Howard Jacobson and John Updike - and who, quite unsurprisingly, write better about painting and sculpture than most art critics. Perhaps the deepest challenge for the ...

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