Artful Readers Book Club
Join fellow art and book lovers for casual, engaging literary discussion at the Artful Readers Book Club. Each month, we’ll gather in the Michael Victor II Art Library at the Springfield Art Association to discuss an art-related book. Light refreshments will be provided by the members of the SAA Library Committee.
The Artful Readers Book Club is free and open to anyone age 21 or older, but registration is requested. To sign up, please contact the SAA by phone at 217-523-2631, by email : office@springfieldart.org or on the Facebook event page.
The Artful Readers Book Club is free and open to anyone age 21 or older, but registration is requested. To sign up, please contact the SAA by phone at 217-523-2631, by email : office@springfieldart.org or on the Facebook event page.
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March 28, 2018
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick “As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of three men and an extraordinary deception: the revered artist Johannes Vermeer; the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him years later; and the con man's mark, Hermann Goering, the fanatical art collector and one of Nazi Germany's most reviled leaders." -goodreads.com April 25, 2018
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. The Muralist, by B.A. Shapiro "Alizée Benoit, an American painter working for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), vanishes in New York City in 1940 amid personal and political turmoil. No one knows what happened to her. Not her Jewish family living in German-occupied France. Not her artistic patron and political compatriot, Eleanor Roosevelt. Not her close-knit group of friends, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. And, some seventy years later, not her great-niece, Danielle Abrams, who while working at Christie’s auction house uncovers enigmatic paintings hidden behind recently found works by those now famous Abstract Expressionist artists. Do they hold answers to the questions surrounding her missing aunt? Entwining the lives of both historical and fictional characters, and moving between the past and the present, The Muralistplunges readers into the divisiveness of prewar politics and the largely forgotten plight of European refugees refused entrance to the United States. It captures both the inner workings of today’s New York art scene and the beginnings of the vibrant and quintessentially American school of Abstract Expressionism." - goodreads.com |
