Passionate discontent : creativity, gender, and French symbolist art
Patricia Townley Mathews (Author)
"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
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999