Art Matters is the definitive study of Hemingways short story aesthetics, locating Hemingways art in literary historical contexts and explaining what he learned from earlier artists such as Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Czanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. By examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, the author charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction. Art Matters is a major contribution to Hemingway scholarship and offers new and vital ways for analyzing and understanding the short story genre