Passionate Discontent
Author: Patricia Mathews
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226510187
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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.