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- catalog abstract ""In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet is was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness - even death. Women and artists were seen as especially susceptible to these negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so.". "Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body, and the mind in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on evidence from the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and medicine, she portrays the deviance ascribed to both inspired men and women. But while various mythologies worked to normalize deviance in male artists, women had no justification. For instance, the mythical sculptor Pygmalion was cured of an abnormal love for his statues through the making of art. He became a model for creative artists, living happily with his statues come to life. No happy endings, though, were imagined for such inspired women writers as Sappho and Heloise, who burned with an erotomania their art could not quench. Even so, Sheriff demonstrates that the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for women - and creative women took full advantage of them."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France".
- catalog contributor b13178454.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet is was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness - even death. Women and artists were seen as especially susceptible to these negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so.".".
- catalog description ""Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body, and the mind in eighteenth-century France. Drawing on evidence from the visual arts, literature, philosophy, and medicine, she portrays the deviance ascribed to both inspired men and women. But while various mythologies worked to normalize deviance in male artists, women had no justification. For instance, the mythical sculptor Pygmalion was cured of an abnormal love for his statues through the making of art. He became a model for creative artists, living happily with his statues come to life.".
- catalog description "Enthusiasm : reason's masterpiece -- The artist and the woman -- Deviant spectators : ignorant girls and women who know too much -- Pygmalion's enthusiasm and the fires of nymphomania, or the psychology of art and desire -- The model Pygmalion and the artist Galatea -- Inspired by Heloise.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index.".
- catalog description "No happy endings, though, were imagined for such inspired women writers as Sappho and Heloise, who burned with an erotomania their art could not quench. Even so, Sheriff demonstrates that the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for women - and creative women took full advantage of them."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 303 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226752879 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0226752887 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "700/.82/0944 21".
- catalog subject "Arts, French 18th century Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- catalog subject "Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.".
- catalog subject "NX549.A1 S49 2003".
- catalog subject "Pygmalion (Greek mythology)".
- catalog subject "Women in art.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Enthusiasm : reason's masterpiece -- The artist and the woman -- Deviant spectators : ignorant girls and women who know too much -- Pygmalion's enthusiasm and the fires of nymphomania, or the psychology of art and desire -- The model Pygmalion and the artist Galatea -- Inspired by Heloise.".
- catalog title "Inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France".
- catalog title "Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France / Mary Sheriff.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".