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- catalog abstract ""Passionate Discontent is a study that explores the relationship between gender and genius in late nineteenth-century French Symbolism." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Creativity, gender, and French symbolist art".
- catalog contributor b11635836.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Passionate Discontent is a study that explores the relationship between gender and genius in late nineteenth-century French Symbolism." "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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.".
- catalog description "The symbolist aesthetic -- The symbolist aesthetic in context: commentary and critique -- The ecstasy and the agony: creative genius and madness -- The gender of creativity: women, pathology, and Camille Claudel -- Gendered bodies I: sexuality, spirituality, and fear of women -- Symbolist women artists: practice and reception -- Gendered bodies II: Paul Gauguin -- Gendered bodies III: Suzanne Valadan.".
- catalog extent "xii, 313 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0226510182 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "709/.44/09034 21".
- catalog subject "Art, French 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Art, French.".
- catalog subject "Art, Modern 19th century France.".
- catalog subject "Claudel, Camille, 1864-1943.".
- catalog subject "Gauguin, Paul, 1848-1903.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in art.".
- catalog subject "N6847.5.N3 M37 1999".
- catalog subject "Symbolism (Art movement) France.".
- catalog subject "Valadon, Suzanne, 1865-1938.".
- catalog subject "Women artists France.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The symbolist aesthetic -- The symbolist aesthetic in context: commentary and critique -- The ecstasy and the agony: creative genius and madness -- The gender of creativity: women, pathology, and Camille Claudel -- Gendered bodies I: sexuality, spirituality, and fear of women -- Symbolist women artists: practice and reception -- Gendered bodies II: Paul Gauguin -- Gendered bodies III: Suzanne Valadan.".
- catalog title "Creativity, gender, and French symbolist art".
- catalog title "Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art / Patricia Mathews.".
- catalog type "text".