Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in 'la Comédie Humaine'

ISBN-13: 9780367602239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 132 str.

Diana Knight

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction From Sculpture to Paiting 1. S/Z, Sarrasine and Le Chef-d'œuvre 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

O autorze

Diana Knight