Passionate discontent
Subtitle: creativity, gender, and French symbolist art
By: Patricia Mathews.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Symbolism (Art movement) -- France; Gender identity in art; Art, French -- 19th century
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-296) and index.