An art novel for the age of mechanical reproduction: Blaise Cendrars's Dan Yack

This article considers Blaise Cendrars's novel Dan Yack (1929) as a variation on the art novel genre, arguing that it rewrites and adapts well-worn art narratives — most notably various iterations of the Pygmalion myth — in order to question the nature and function of art in the age of mechanic...

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Main Author: Shingler, Katherine
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2013
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33898/