Balzac and the Model of Painting

Balzac and the Model of Painting
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Publisher : MHRA
Total Pages : 133
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ISBN-10 : 9781905981069
ISBN-13 : 1905981066
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Book Synopsis Balzac and the Model of Painting by : Diana Knight

Download or read book Balzac and the Model of Painting written by Diana Knight and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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