num_pages: 132
description: 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.
language: English
title: Balzac and the Model of Painting
titlecomplete: Balzac and the Model of Painting (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Routledge