Painted Veils
Painted Veils,novel by Huneker, published in 1920.
Set among the bohemian society of New York artists, critics, and dilettantes, this impressionistic narrative exhibits the author's love of the exotic and the voluptuous, his acceptance of the decorative aspects of Oriental mysticism, and his intimate knowledge of art and artists in his time. His aesthetic enthusiasms are shown by the incidental inclusion of such figures as Saltus, de Reszke, Lilli Lehmann, Huysmans, Gourmont, Mary Garden, and Seidl, and digressions concerning Wagner, the Symbolists, Ibsen, Henry James, Stendhal, Petronius, à Kempis, Flaubert, and others. The principal characters are fictional, and include Esther Brandés, later called “Easter” and finally “Istar,” a beautiful and gifted Southern girl who wins a great success as a Wagnerian soprano, while maintaining her independence equally of men and of morals; Ulick Invern, a wealthy amateur and critic, who cherishes...
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