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Balzac and the Model of Painting

Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine

Diana Knight author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Jun '20

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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.

ISBN: 9780367602239

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

132 pages