Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art

Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art
ISBN-10
0226510182
ISBN-13
9780226510187
Category
Art
Pages
348
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Patricia Mathews

Description

"Art historian Patricia Mathews examines the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France. Along the way, she illuminates the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. She analyzes contemporary cultural assumptions as well as theories such as social Darwinism, biological determinism, and degeneracy."--BOOK JACKET.

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