The Mystery of a Masterpiece: Balzac and Rivette
Abstract
The article starts with an examination of the question of understanding a painting presented in Balzac's story Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu. The author shows similarities and differences between the vision of the painting presented in Balzac's legendary text and its film adaptation in Jacques Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse. Czaja focuses on the rhetoric of the conversation on the ontology of image contained in the painting, and the consequences of such understanding on the purposes and nature of art as a whole.
Keywords:
Jacques Rivette, Honoré de Balzac, paintingReferences
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Dariusz Czajakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Redaktor „Kontekstów”, antropolog kultury. Dr hab., wykładowca UJ, Autor książek Sygnatura i fragment. Narracje antropologiczne (2004) i Anatomia duszy. Figury wyobrazni i gry językowe (2006), Lekcje ciemności (2009).
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