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Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathews, Patricia Townley, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Symbolism (Art movement) > France.
Gender identity in art.
Art, French.
Art, French > 19th century.
Women artists > France.
Table of 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.