Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine - Diana Knight - Books - Maney Publishing - 9781905981069 - December 1, 2007
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Balzac and the Model of Painting: Artist Stories in La Comedie Humaine 1st edition


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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.


160 pages, Illustrations

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released December 1, 2007
ISBN13 9781905981069
Publishers Maney Publishing
Pages 132
Dimensions 174 × 246 × 241 mm   ·   408 g
Language English  

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