Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art

by Patricia Mathews

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226510182
• ISBN13: 9780226510187
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"