Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France /
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness--even death. Women and artists w...
| Основен автор: | Sheriff, Mary D. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312194 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Moved by love. |
| Резюме: |
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual deviance, mental illness--even death. Women and artists were seen as especially susceptible to these negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so. Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body and the mind in eighteenth-century Fra. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226752846 0226752844 9780226752877 0226752879 9780226752884 0226752887 |