Pen vs. paintbrush : Girodet, Balzac, and the myth of Pygmalion in post-revolutionary France / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wettlaufer, Alexandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pygmalion (Mythological character)--Art.

Pygmalion (Mythological character).

Pygmalion (Mythological character)--In literature.

Arts, Modern--19th century--France.

Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824.

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.

Arts, Modern.

France.

Genre:

Art.

Physical Description:

x, 323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

"Pen vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post-Revolutionary France explores the sibling rivalry between the sister arts from 1789-1830, focusing on the anxieties of aesthetics, artistic selfhood, and masculinity as they are brought forth in a competition between painters and authors for ascendancy during a period when definitions of gender and genre had been radically destabilized.

Contents:

Introduction: Pygmalion and the Paragone 1

Chapter 1 Girodet's Endymion: Painting between the Centuries 31

Chapter 2 Girodet: Poet and Painter 63

Chapter 3 Pygmalion, the Patron, Politics and the Press: A Portrait of the Artist in Restoration France 101

Chapter 4 Allegories of Reading: Balzac's Maison du chat-qui-pelote 137

Chapter 5 Sarrasine: Gender, Genre and the Female Reader 175

Chapter 6 Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu: Pygmalion Denied 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-311) and index.

ISBN:

0312236417

OCLC:

45463446