Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art

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

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Description
  1. xii, 313 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Symbolism (Art movement) > France
  2. Gender identity in art
  3. Art, French > 19th century
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JQZ 12-975
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-296) and index.
Author
  1. Mathews, Patricia Townley, 1946-2018.
Title
  1. Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art / Patricia Mathews.
Imprint
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-296) and index.
LCCN
  1. 99022167
ISBN
  1. 0226510182 (cloth : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JQZ 12-975
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