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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheriff, Mary D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Temas:
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Pygmalion > (Mythological character)
Héloïse, > 1101-1164.
Héloïse, > approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
1700-1799
Arts, French > 18th century > Themes, motives.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > 18th century.
Women in literature > History > 18th century.
Arts français > 18e siècle > Thèmes, motifs.
Femmes dans la littérature > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Pygmalion (Mythologie grecque)
ART > Reference.
ART > Performance.
Women in literature
Arts, French > Themes, motives
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
art, women, gender, france, passion, enthusiasm, identity, affect, sensation, sexuality, deviance, mental illness, madwomen, insanity, death, female artists, creativity, medicine, philosophy, literature, visual arts, pygmalion, abnormality, normality, heloise, sappho, erotomania, disease, artistic genius, madness, reason, emulation, possession, galatea, desire, nymphomania, nonfiction.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Enthusiasm : reason's masterpiece
  • The artist and the woman
  • Deviant spectators : ignorant girls and women who know too much
  • Pygmalion's enthusiasm and the fires of nymphomania, or the psychology of art and desire
  • The model Pygmalion and the artist Galatea
  • Inspired by Heloise.

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