by Maurice Rheims · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226008602
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«L'enfer de la curiosité: De Marat au bain au petit pan de mur jaune» is the essay by Maurice Rheims, published by Albin Michel (485 pp., in French).
An essay on nineteenth-century French literature and its links with the visual arts. Rheims starts from the image of Marat in the bath as depicted by David to arrive at the «petit pan de mur jaune», showing how painting runs through literary creation. The work combines critical and historical analysis, with references to the authors and works of the period.
Published in Paris in 1979, it includes bibliographic references and is situated within studies on nineteenth-century French literature and art in literature.
It will interest readers of literary criticism, art history and nineteenth-century French culture.
Maurice Rheims was a French art auctioneer, art historian and novelist, born in Versailles. He administered the estate of the painter Pablo Picasso. He is the father of the photographer Bettina Rheims.
