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Original Title:	Clara y la penumbra
ISBN:	0349118833 (ISBN13: 9780349118833)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio Fernando Lara de Novela (2001)

The Art of Murder Paperback | Pages: 480 pages

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Title	:	The Art of Murder
Author	:	José Carlos Somoza
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 480 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 2005 by Abacus (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Art

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In 2006, the art world has moved far beyond sheep in formaldehyde and the most avant-garde movement is to use living people as artwork. Undergoing weeks of preparation to become 'canvases', the models are required to stay in their pose for ten to twelve hours a day and, as art pieces, they are also for sale. After being exhibited, the 'canvases' can be bought and taken to the purchaser's home, where they are rented for weeks or months.
Many beautiful young men and women long to become a 'canvas' - knowing they are a masterpeice and worth millions seems to make all the sacrifices worthwhile - especially if they can be 'painted' by the celebrated artist Bruno Van Tysch. But there is a darker side to this art movement when it is found that the models/works of art are sometimes used in interactive works - snuff movies, where the 'art' is filmed being tortured and killed. Van Tysch's work is being targeted and the investigators must find the killer before the displays of imitations of Rembrandt's masterpieces - the biggest exhibition of 'hyperdramatic art' yet seen - is put on show.

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There are some exquisite books on the market. Gargoyle and Technosmose were deranged, but Davidson is a toddler in comparison with Somoza, and Mathieu Terence is Somozas equal but much colder writer. Extravagance of this book is definitely not going to hit everyones buttons and this is probably the main reason why this book isnt popular and will not be heart openly welcomed by majority. Maybe Im writing wrong review here, putting Davidson and Terence in the same box with Somoza, giving the

Brilliantly original. Loved the concepts and ideas as much as, if not more than, the thriller aspect. Excellent.

This is a book written with cinematic approach. It has an interesting idea, and is written in a captivating fashion but that's as far as the good things go. In my opinion this isn't a good book, it is something you can kill time with. I didn't like it because the way I judge books is very specific - I insist that it should either be incredibly funny in an intelligent way or it should have a profound message. The only valuable idea this book provides is that objectifying human beings is evil. But

Wow.

The basic premise of the book is that at some point around the 1950s, it became common for artists to use people as canvases. A canvas stays in one position for hours, is prepped to become a blank state, physically and mentally, so the artist can use them to create art. The canvas is, wants to be, perfect for the artist to work on and aims to give up their *self* for the eight hours a day they are that painting, for the time that painting is on show, until someone else becomes the canvas and the

'read' means 120 pages in and 'just didn't get it'.couldn't struggle on with it.it meant nothing to me - no story, no characters, no titillation even, just some kids getting painted.book didn't seem to know what it wanted to be, horror, fantasy, police investigation, thriller?gah, 1* and unfinished.

A thoroughly dark book. The sense of chiaroscuro throughout is increasingly electric.The text itself is delightfully and sometimes frightfully imagistic, with painterly depictions - realistic, other times impressionist, expressionist or even surreally observed (and only coming into clear focus with time - as with misleading cinema edits). I read much of the book with the smell of oil paint firm in my mind (I painted in ochre for several days straight and the colour happens to recur frequently),