by Patricia Townley Mathews
"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.
Rob Owen
Phyllis Lassner
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