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

by Diana Knight

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905981069
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Series:	Legenda French Studies Series , #24
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Diana Knight

Table of Contents

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

Editorial 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, 38, Fall-Winter 2009-10, 119-20 - Marja Warehime

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 - Elizabeth C. Mansfield