0961.05Pygmalion

0961.05Pygmalion_Schmalz2

Wikipedia re: Paris (2003)
Homer Iliad 3 and passim
Apollodorus Libr. Ep.3.1-6.29

Herbert Gustave Schmalz, aka Carmichael, 1865-1935, "Pygmalion! Pygmalion!" (1915). cf. Schmalz' "Awakening of Galatea" (1907)

Kestner sees this as a manifestation of "the classical degenerating into the prurient." (337)

"Max Ernst's lithograph Elektra was originally intended as an illustration to Paul Éluard's cycle of poems Chanson complète. Ernst emphasizes the affective in E.: the facial features of the figure, standing alone in an agitated posture on the stage, are represented just by three empty wide-open cavities." (Moog-Gruenewald, s.v. "Electra", 258).

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.