Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
0520073010
Content:
Balzac's literary biographers scarcely mention The Unknown Masterpiece . From 1831, when it first appeared, throughout the rest of the century, there were scores of illustrations of characters in Balzac's works, but in all the voluminous archives of prints, there appears to be no embodiment of Frenhofer. For countless artists, nonetheless, Frenhofer was and remains legendary. That paradoxical word 'legendary' is suitable in the case of Frenhofer's renown among artists: it emerges only partway from its root - to read - and then flies off into its opposite. The fact is that many artists who found in themselves the image of Frenhofer were not altogether familiar with Balzac's text.
Note:
Originally published: New York : Thames and Hudson, 1980
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ashton, Dore, 1928 - 2017 A fable of modern art Berkeley [u.a.] : University of California Press, 1991 ISBN 0520073010
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Moderne
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Kunst
Author information:
Ashton, Dore 1928-2017
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