The French Art Novel, 1900 - 1930

"The French art novel, with its tales of artists, models and creative struggles, is often thought to be a specifically nineteenth-century phenomenon, which dies out by 1900. This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study argues that the art novel does not infact disappear but rather undergoes a series of transformations in the early twentieth century, in step with radical changes in the visual arts of the period." -- Page 4 of cover.