This book analyzes Siri Hustvedt's three novels The Blindfold, What I Loved and The Sorrows of an American with a focus on visual art. Siri Hustvedt is one of the most popular American writers today and her work is predominantly concerned with art historical and psychological themes. The author of this book investigates the function of paintings and photographs in Hustvedt's novels and conceives of verbal representations of artworks as extended metaphors. Her analysis includes verbal description