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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-007.mrc:58364341:2850
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050 00 $aNX652.P87$bW48 2001
082 00 $a700/.451$221
100 1 $aWettlaufer, Alexandra.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00028303
245 10 $aPen vs. paintbrush :$bGirodet, Balzac, and the myth of Pygmalion in post-revolutionary France /$cAlexandra K. Wettlaufer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave,$c2001.
300 $ax, 323 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-311) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Pygmalion and the Paragone --$gCh. 1.$tGirodet's Endymion: Painting between the Centuries --$gCh. 2.$tGirodet: Poet and Painter --$gCh. 3.$tPygmalion, the Patron, Politics and the Press: A Portrait of the Artist in Restoration France --$gCh. 4.$tAllegories of Reading: Balzac's Maison du chat-qui-pelote --$gCh. 5.$tSarrasine: Gender, Genre and the Female Reader --$gCh. 6.$tLe Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu: Pygmalion Denied.
520 1 $a"Pen vs. Paintbrush explores the sibling rivalry between the sister arts from 1789 to 1830, focusing on the anxieties of aesthetics, artistic selfhood, and masculinity as they were brought forth in a competition between painters and authors for ascendancy during a period when definitions of gender and genre had been radically destabilized.
520 8 $aThe competition for aesthetic hegemony, prompted by the uncertainties of artistic production in postrevolutionary France, further reflected a crisis in gender and artists' response to the threatening spectre of female subjecthood. The works of Anne-Louis Girodet and Honore de Balzac manifest this twofold rivalry of gender and genre in their compulsive reworkings of the myth of Pygmalion. Pen vs.
520 8 $aPaintbrush 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 JACKET.
600 00 $aPygmalion$c(Mythological character)$xArt.
650 0 $aPygmalion (Greek mythology) in literature.
650 0 $aArts, French$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005001391
600 10 $aGirodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis,$d1767-1824.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84058477
600 10 $aBalzac, Honoré de,$d1799-1850.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79071094
852 00 $bglx$hNX652.P87$iW48 2001