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