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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  Pen Vs. Paintbrush: Girodet, Balzac, and the Myth of Pygmalion in Post-Revolutionary France
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Pen vs. Paintbrush 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. The works of Anne-Louis Girodet and Honore de Balzac manifest the two-fold rivalry of gender and genre in their compulsive reworkings of the myth of Pygmalion. Pen vs. Paintbrush documents the ways in which this emblematic pair of artists responded to and represented the anxieties of artistic production, identity, and gender that confronted an entire generation. Book News Annotation:Wettlaufer (French and comparative literature, U. of Texas, Austin)
examines depictions of the Pygmalion myth in the paintings of Anne-
Louis Girodet and the novels of Honor<'e> de Balzac. Her focus is on
the darker side of the relationship between painting and literature,
locating "the heart of the competition between pen and paintbrush in
the perceived threat of an invasive and ambitious Other, and in
changes, conflicts and controversies surrounding the production and
consumption of art at the outset of the nineteenth century."
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:"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. About the AuthorAlexandra K. Wettlaufer is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in 19th-century European literature and painting. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pygmalion and the Paragone *Girodet's Endymion Painting Between the Centuries *Girodet: Poet and Painter *Pygmalion, the Patron, Politics and the Press: A Portrait of the Artist in Restoration France *Allegories of Reading: Balzac's Maison du chat-qui-pelote * Sarrasine Gender, Genre and the Female Reader * Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu Pygmalion Denied Introduction: Pygmalion and the Paragone *Girodet's Endymion Painting Between the Centuries *Girodet: Poet and Painter *Pygmalion, the Patron, Politics and the Press: A Portrait of the Artist in Restoration France *Allegories of Reading: Balzac's Maison du chat-qui-pelote * Sarrasine Gender, Genre and the Female Reader * Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu Pygmalion Denied What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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