Download or read book Catherine Lescault written by Walter Idlewild and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the delirious and vitalizing novel Catherine Lescault, alternative incarnations of Honoré de Balzac's classic characters from The Unknown Masterpiece enact romances of lunacy and obsession to dramatize their search for the reality of artistic creation. The novelists Frenhofer and Porbus, the painter and muse Gillette, the troubadour Nicolas, and the sculptor Houdon all strive to discover the secret of imbuing art with life, despite the voices of academic critics and students, peers and rivals, relatives and loved ones, and their own withering internal frailties. Some disciples may achieve the dream of allowing the ideal courtesan subject, Catherine Lescault herself, to breathe and live and love, while other artists' fixations lead into monomaniacal madness with unspeakably tragic consequences. Which interpretation will ultimately triumph: sculpture, paint, music, dance, acts on the stage, or words on the page?"--Back cover.

Download or read book The magic skin The quest of the absolute and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Waxworks written by Michelle E. Bloom and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1921. The world's greatest wax sculptor watches in horror as flames consume his museum and melt his uncannily lifelike creations. Twelve years later, he opens a wax museum in New York. Crippled, disfigured, and driven mad by the fire, he resorts to body snatching and murder to populate his displays, preserving the bodies in wax. "In a thousand years you will be as lovely as you are now, " he assures one victim. In The Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), director Michael Curtiz perfectly captures the macabre essence of realistic wax figures that have excited the darker aspects of the public's imagination ever since Madame Tussaud established her famous museum in London in 1802. Artists, too, have been fascinated by wax sculptures, seeing in them--and in the unique properties of wax itself--an eerie metaphoric power with which to address sexual anxiety, fears of mortality, and other morbid subjects. In Waxworks, Michelle E. Bloom explores the motif of the wax figure in European and American literature and art. In particular, she connects the myth of Pygmalion to the obsession with wax statues of women in the nineteenth-century fetishization of prostitutes and female corpses and as depicted in such "wax fictions" as Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop (1841). Filmmakers, too, have sought inspiration from wax museums, and Bloom analyzes works from the silent era to such waxwork-themed Hollywood horror films as Mad Love (1935) and House of Wax (1953). Bringing her discussion to the present, Bloom examines the work of contemporary artists who use the medium of wax in ways never imagined by Madame Tussaud. As extravagant new wax museums open in Las Vegas, Times Square, and Paris, Waxworksoffers a provocative cultural history of this enduring--and disturbing--art form.

Download or read book The Quest of the Absolute written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The quest of the absolute The unknown masterpiece Christ in Flanders Melmoth reconciled The red house written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romantic Rapports written by Larry H. Peer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays offering fresh glimpses of Romanticism as interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic, illuminating the discursive features and the pan-European nature of the movement.

Download or read book Selected Short Stories Dual Language written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV6 short-story masterpieces by great French novelist include "An Episode During the Terror," "A Passion in the Desert," "The Revolutionary Conscript," 3 more. Excellent new English translations on facing pages. /div

Download or read book The country doctor The quest of the absolute and other stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Novels written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Le Chef d hoeuvre Inconnu written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Unknown Masterpiece written by Honoré de Balzac and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unknown Masterpiece is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. Young Nicolas Poussin is an aspiring artist who pays visit to Porbus in his studio. He is joined by the old maestro Frenhofer as they collectively ideate a new project that will shake the world of art...