Passionate Discontent Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
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Passionate Discontent is an erudite study of the relationship between gender and genius in late nineteenth-century French Symbolism. Born in an era of crisis, the Symbolist art movement was characterized by withdrawal to a mystical, antibourgeois world of the mind and spirit. While Symbolists idealized the "poete maudit, " a creative, mad genius exhibiting an emotional state of heightened awareness and "passionate discontent, " female artists displaying similar symptoms were dismissed as hysterical.
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Art historian Patricia Mathews traverses the artistic, social, and scientific discourses of fin-de-siecle France in order to illuminate the Symbolist construction of a feminized aesthetic that nonetheless excluded female artists from its realm. Along the way, Mathews proffers important new readings of the art of such Symbolists as Gauguin, van Gogh, and Moreau, as well as that of their female contemporaries Camille Claudel and Suzanne Valadon. Passionate Discontent is an important contribution to art historical and women's studies.
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