Author : Patricia Mathews
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226510182
Passionate Discontent by Patricia Mathews Pdf
"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.