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

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Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine - Knight, Diana
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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.

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Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine 2020, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780367602239

Paperback

Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine 2007, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9781905981069

Hardcover