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
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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