Balzac and the Model of Painting

Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine

Diana Knight author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Maney Publishing

Published:1st Dec '07

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This book explores Barthes's 'model of painting' in the context of Balzac's fictional representations of the relation between artists, their models and their works of art. Diana Knight criticises the sexual politics of prostitution and marriage in nineteenth-century France.

Are painting and sculpture equally liable to distort lived experience, or is sculpture capable of securing a closer approximation of material truth? This is just one of the intriguing questions suggested by Balzac and the Model of Painting. -- caa.reviews caa.reviews Carefully focused, tightly written, and well-presented, this volume of close readings of Balzac's artist stories is a solid and valuable addition to the Research Monographs in the Legenda series. -- Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-Century French Studies

ISBN: 9781905981069

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 408g

132 pages