Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781905981069)

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.

Author: Diana Knight
ISBN-10: 1905981066
ISBN-13: 9781905981069
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 132
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.65h x 7.00w x 0.49d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2008 pg. 305