Models and Their Artists: The Dichotomous Representation of Women in The Unknown Masterpiece, Manette Salomon and The Masterpiece

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dc.contributor.authorDonaldson, Sharon Oliviaen
dc.contributor.committeechairShryock, Richard L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberNelson, Amyen
dc.contributor.committeememberJohnson, Sharon P.en
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:38:31Zen
dc.date.adate2000-05-25en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:38:31Zen
dc.date.issued2000-05-09en
dc.date.rdate2001-05-25en
dc.date.sdate2000-05-25en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis proposes to analyze the dichotomous representation of the female model as benevolent and malevolent in three 19th-century French novels. Honoré de Balzac's The Unknown Masterpiece (1834), Jules and Edmond de Goncourt's Manette Salomon (1867), and Émile Zola's The Masterpiece (1886) are all novels set in artist's workshops and all portray the female model as playing an essential role in determining the success, then demise of the male painter. My study of these texts will therefore focus on the juxtaposed presentations of the female models in terms of their relationships to the male artists. It will reveal how as the artists succeed in transforming their models' bodies into aesthetic nudes and containing these representations within the parameters of their canvases as a means of asserting their authority, the models are positively portrayed. On the contrary, when the artists fail to transform and contain their models' bodies, these female characters are negatively depicted as being the source of the painters' ruin. By examining this dichotomous representation of the female models, I will reveal the complex means by which the patriarchal order within the texts oppresses the female characters.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05252000-14080026en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05252000-14080026/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33210en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartAbs_Ack_TOC.PDFen
dc.relation.haspartThesis.pdfen
dc.relation.haspartTitlepg.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFranceen
dc.subjectBalzacen
dc.subjectZolaen
dc.subjectGoncourten
dc.subject19th Centuryen
dc.titleModels and Their Artists: The Dichotomous Representation of Women in The Unknown Masterpiece, Manette Salomon and The Masterpieceen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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