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