1st Edition

Balzac and the Model of Painting Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine

By Diana Knight Copyright 2007
    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    132 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Introduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'Ĺ“uvre inconnu From Painting to Marriage 2. La Bourse 3. La Vendetta 4. La Maison du chat-qui-pelote From Model to Artist 5. La Rabouilleuse 6. The Joseph Bridau Cycle 7. Afterword

    Biography

    Diana Knight