Bodies of Art

Autorentext
Marie Lathers is Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professor of Humanities and French at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Aesthetics of Artifice: Villiers's L'Eve future.

Zusammenfassung
Looks at atelier politics through the lens of literature focuses in particular on the female model, with special attention to her race, ethnicity, and class. This title offers an account of the rise and fall of the female model in nineteenth-century realism, a trend felt well into the twentieth century, especially in the new field of photography.

Inhalt
Contents - List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction1; 1. Paris Qui Pose - The Female Model in Nineteenth-Century France; 2. Chi Era la Fornarina? - Raphael, Balzac, Ingres; 3. Forgotten in a Corner - Modeling in Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu and La Cousine Bette; 4. Posing at the Hotel Pimodan - Baudelaire and the Model; 5. Models, Monkeys, and Naturalism - The Goncourt Brothers' Manette Salomon; 6. The Model's Postpartum Belly - Zola's L'Oeuvre; 7. Maupassant, Mauclair, and Villiers - The Aging and Death of the Model; 8. Studies after Nature - The Photographic Model at the Turn of the Century; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

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