Femme fatale
Subtitle: images of evil and fascinating women
By: Patrick Bade.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Mayflower Books
Published: 1979
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Femmes fatales in art.; Arts, Modern -- 19th century.
Description: "In the striking works of pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and Art Nouveau artists and in their literary parallels, Patrick Bade uncovers an extraordinary, disturbing world of sexual fantasy and a remarkably pervasive image of woman as destroyer, enchantress, priestess, siren, sphinx and angel of death, the femme fatale becambe the sinister new heroine of an entire generation of one of the most powerful symbols of change in late nineteenth-century society."--back cover.
Notes: Includes index.