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|name= The Death of Art
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|image=Deathofart na54.jpg
|range = Virgin New Adventures
|series=[[Virgin New Adventures]]  
|number in range = 54
|number= 54  
|number= 54
|doctor=Seventh Doctor  
|doctor = Seventh Doctor
|companions=  [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]  
|companions=  [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
|enemy= [[Montague]]  
|featuring = [[Charles Dickens]]
|setting= [[London]], [[1845]]<br />[[Paris]], [[1884]], [[1897]] and [[1995]]  
|enemy= [[Montague (The Death of Art)|Montague]]
|writer= [[Simon Bucher-Jones]]  
|setting= {{il|[[London]], [[1845]]|[[Paris]], [[1884]], [[1897]] and [[1995]]}}
|publisher= Virgin Books  
|writer= Simon Bucher-Jones
|release date= [[19 September (releases)|19 September]] [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
|cover= [[John Sullivan]]
|format= Paperback Book; 27 Chapters, 256 Pages  
|publisher= Virgin Books
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20481-6  
|release date= 19 September 1996
|prev= Return of the Living Dad (novel)  
|format= Paperback Book;<br/>27 Chapters, 276 Pages
|next= Damaged Goods (novel)}}
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20481-6
'''''The Death of Art''''' is the fifty-fourth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. It is another in the arc of stories featuring [[:Category:Psychic powers|psychic powers]].
|prev= Return of the Living Dad (novel)
|next= Damaged Goods (novel)
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'''''The Death of Art''''' was the fifty-fourth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. It was another in the arc of stories featuring psychic powers.


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.''
''He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.''


[[1880]]'s [[France]]: the corrupt world of the [[Third Republic]]. A clandestine brotherhood is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.
[[1880]]'s [[France]]: the corrupt world of the [[Third Republic]]. A clandestine [[Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh|brotherhood]] is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a [[Quoth|race of beings]] seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of [[human]] [[evolution]].


[[Chris Cwej|Chris]] finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; [[Roz Forrester|Roz]] follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent [[Paris]] from being utterly destroyed.
[[Chris Cwej|Chris]] finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; [[Roz Forrester|Roz]] follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent [[Paris]] from being utterly destroyed.
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* [[David Clayton]]
* [[David Clayton]]
* Brother [[Tomas (The Death of Art)|Tomas]]
* Brother [[Tomas (The Death of Art)|Tomas]]
* [[Montague]]
* [[Montague (The Death of Art)|Montague]]
* [[Clarissa Montfalcon]]
* [[Clarissa Montfalcon]]
* [[Dominic Montfalcon]]
* [[Dominic Montfalcon]]
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* [[Claudette Engadine]]
* [[Claudette Engadine]]
* [[Jean Veber]]
* [[Jean Veber]]
* [[Marcel]]
* [[Marcel (The Death of Art)|Marcel]]
* [[Alfred Dreyfus]]
* [[Alfred Dreyfus]]
* [[Francesque Duquesne]]
* [[Francesque Duquesne]]
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* [[Hubert Henri]]
* [[Hubert Henri]]
* [[Jean Mayeur]]
* [[Jean Mayeur]]
* [[Jules Perraudin]]
* [[Jules Balmarian]]
* [[Jules Balmarian]]
* [[Kasper]]
* [[Kasper]]
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* [[Truthseeker]]
* [[Truthseeker]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* ''[[The King in Yellow]]'' is mentioned.
=== Devices ===
=== Devices ===
* The [[ormolu clock]] is still within the TARDIS.
* The [[ormolu clock]] is still within [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].


=== The Doctor ===
=== The Doctor ===
* The Doctor was once invited to [[the Rani]]'s 94th birthday party.
* The Doctor was once invited to [[the Rani]]'s 94th birthday party.
* The Doctor is worried that he has very few harmless and peaceful memories.


=== The Doctor's items ===
=== The Doctor's items ===
* [[Ace]] has the Doctor's [[500 Year Diary]].
* [[Ace]] has the Doctor's [[500 Year Diary]].


=== Biology ===
=== People ===
* The Doctor is prepared to destroy the [[Quoth]] with something in his blood, but as an agreement is made he swallows the blood.
* [[Georges-Eugene Haussmann]] became Prefect of Paris in the 1850s.
* Roz Forrester recals arresting the fake mystic [[Rhan-Te-Goth]] in the [[30th century]] during her three-month stint on fraudster watch assigned by her trainer [[Konstantine]].


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* [[Quoth|The Quoth]] live 18,000 times faster than humans.
* The [[Time Lord]]s' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.
* The [[Time Lord]]s' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.


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=== Theories and concepts ===
=== Theories and concepts ===
* The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
* The [[Sensory Limitation Effect]] is a barrier of scale where events take place over timescales too vast to be meaningful.
=== Food and beverages ===
* The Doctor drinks [[wine]].
* Roz stays up all night drinking [[red wine]] with David.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor installs a copy of a cathedral into the TARDIS for future use — presumably this is the origin of the console room used in [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
* Chris pretends to be the [[Fifth Doctor]], not very successfully, following the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''.
* Chris pretends to be the [[Fifth Doctor]], not very successfully, following the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]''.
* The Doctor saves the partially formed [[Notre Dame de Paris|Notre Dame du Paris]] configuration in the TARDIS for possible later use. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
* The [[Quoth]] later made a minor reappearance in [[PROSE]]: ''[[White Canvas (novel)|White Canvas]]''.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|who_na54.htm|The Death of Art}}
{{dwrefguide|who_na54.htm|The Death of Art}}
* {{whoniverse|na54|The Death of Art}}
* {{whoniverse|na54|The Death of Art}}


* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/deathofart.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Death of Art''']
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The Death of Art was the fifty-fourth Virgin New Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. It was another in the arc of stories featuring psychic powers.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

He did not know if his powers could save him until the horses' hooves had crushed his ribs and his heart had stopped beating. After that, it was obvious.

1880's France: the corrupt world of the Third Republic. A clandestine brotherhood is engaged in a desperate internal power struggle; a race of beings seeks to free itself from perpetual oppression; and a rip in time threatens an entire city. The future of Europe is at stake, in a war fought with minds and bodies altered to the limits of human evolution.

Chris finds himself working undercover with a suspicious French gendarme; Roz follows a psychic artist whose talents are attracting the attention of mysterious forces; and the Doctor befriends a shape-shifting member of a terrifying family. And, at the heart of it all, a dark and disturbing injustice is being perpetrated. Only an end to the secret war, and the salvation of an entire race, can prevent Paris from being utterly destroyed.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Devices[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor was once invited to the Rani's 94th birthday party.

The Doctor's items[[edit] | [edit source]]

People[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Time Lords' lives are linear, just in more dimensions.

Sports[[edit] | [edit source]]

Theories and concepts[[edit] | [edit source]]

Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor drinks wine.
  • Roz stays up all night drinking red wine with David.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This novel is based on the historical events of the Dreyfus Affair.
  • The novel makes references to the disappearance of the author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid - i.e. Professor James Moriarty, last seen falling off a cliff in Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Final Problem.
  • Anton Jarre recalls meeting a Belgian police sergeant who is clearly intended to be a young Hercule Poirot, the detective created by Agatha Christie.
  • The novel makes reference to the events of The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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