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Hardcover Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art Book

ISBN: 0226510182

ISBN13: 9780226510187

Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art

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 "po te maudit," a creative, mad genius exhibiting an emotional state of heightened awareness and "passionate discontent," female artists...

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