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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226752846 0226752844 9780226752877 0226752879 9780226752884 0226752887 1282537741 9781282537743 9786612537745 6612537744 |