LA FIGURA DEL ARTISTA EN THE BOOK OF PORTRAITURE EN IN & OZ, DE STEVE TOMASULA

Abstract

The Book of Portraiture e IN & OZ del autor estadounidense Steve Tomasula son novelas representativas deuna tendencia estética que ha crecido en las últimas décadas. Estas novelas pueden ser consideradas librosobjetosde arte ya que su diseño, su tipografía particular y el color de sus páginas resaltan la tridimensionalidaddel libro. En estas obras lo textual y lo paratextual se imbrican para crear un producto único, que se pueblacon personajes que son artistas, desde el pintor Diego Velázquez en The Book of Portraiture, hasta el neófitoMecánico de IN & OZ. “THE ARTIST” IN THE BOOK OF PORTRAITURE AND IN & OZ, BY STEVETOMASULAAbstractThe Book of Portraiture and IN & OZ, written by the American author Steve Tomasula, are representativenovels of a growing aesthetic tendency in the last decades. These novels can be considered books-objects ofart due to their graphic design, their peculiar typography and page color, therefore making the tridimensionalityof the book foregrounding. In these novels the textual and the paratextual are woven as to be inseparable. So,the characters of both novels are artists, from Diego Velázquez in The Book of Portraiture to the neophyteMechanic in IN & OZ.Key Words: Art – Literature – Artist – Post-postmodernism– XXI Century