Balzac and the model of painting
artist stories in "La Comédie humaine"
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Publication
2007 - Legenda in association with the Society for French Studies, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
30,250 words, Guess
Page Count
121 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101905981066
- ISBN-139781905981069
- Library of Congress Control Number2008411202
- OCLC Control Number1013927857
- OCLC Control Number86168415
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number190966576
- Better World Books9781905981069
- Open LibraryOL19063291M
Classifications
- LCCPQ2184.A7 B33 2007
- LCCPQ2181
- LCCPQ2184.A7
and 1 more
- LCCPQ2184.A7 K65 2007
Description
"Texts about paintings, painters and sculptors are obvious test cases for issues of representation. A significant corpus of artist stories is scattered through Honore de Balzac's Commedie humaine which, from Marx to Lukacs to Roland Barthes's enormously influential S/Z (1970), has been a key literary work for critical debates around French realism. In a series of close readings, Diana Knight explores Barthes's 'model of painting' - the metaphorical code of painting and sculpture that underpins realist discourse - in the context of Balzac's fictional representations of the relation between artists, their models and their works of art. Whereas critics have tended to denounce Balzac's realist aesthetic as complicit with the misogyny of the society he portrays, Balzac and the Model of Painting takes the artist-model relationship, variously gendered in these stories, as the focus of the author's powerful realist critique of the sexual politics of prostitution and marriage in nineteenth-century France."--Jacket.
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- Research monographs in French studies -- 24
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