Offers new perspectives on Proust's complex and creative relation to a variety of art forms from different eras.

1. Introduction; Part I. Art's Way: 2. Primitives and primitive arts in the Recherche Nathalie Mauriac Dyer; 3. 'Some dear or sad fantasy': faith, idolatry, infidelity Sophie Duval; 4. I am [not] a painting: how Chardin and Moreau dialogue in Proust's writing Christie McDonald; Part II. Apprenticing and Integrating: 5. Art and craft in Marcel Proust's life and work Virginie Greene; 6. 'Those blessed days': Ruskin, Proust, and Carpaccio in Venice Susan Ricci Stebbins; 7. 'Cette douceur, pour ainsi dire wagnérienne': musical resonance in Proust's Recherche John Hamilton; Part III. Expanding the Arts: 8. Proust and archeological discovery Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa; 9. Swann's gift, Odette's face: photography, money and desire in À la recherche du temps perdu Suzanne Guerlac; 10. Oriane's artful fashions Caroline Weber; 11. Glass and clay: Proust and Gallé Elaine Scarry; Part IV. Perceiving and Transforming: 12. Proust's eye Françoise Leriche; 13. Sound and music in Proust: what the Symbolists heard Sindhumathi Revuluri; 14. Inside a red cover: Proust and the art of the book Evelyne Ender and Serafina Lawrence; Part V. Creative Identities: 15. Proust and the Marx Brothers Elisabeth Ladenson; 16. Proust, Jews, and the arts Maurice Samuels; 17. 'Irregular' kin: Madeleine Lemaire and Reynaldo Hahn in Les plaisirs et les jours François Proulx; 18. The day Proust recognized he was a great writer Antoine Compagnon; Bibliography.