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Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art

Title
Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art / Patricia Mathews.
Author
Mathews, Patricia Townley, 1946-2018.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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Description
xii, 313 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Subject
  • Symbolism (Art movement) > France
  • Gender identity in art
  • Art, French > 19th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-296) and index.
Contents
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.
Call Number
JQZ 12-975
ISBN
0226510182 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99022167
OCLC
41258455
Author
Mathews, Patricia Townley, 1946-2018.
Title
Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art / Patricia Mathews.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-296) and index.
Research Call Number
JQZ 12-975
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