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 we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sheriff, Mary D. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 2004.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798015706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Enthusiasm: Reason's Masterpiece
  • Chapter 2. The Artist and theWoman
  • Chapter 3. Deviant Spectators: Ignorant Girls andWomen Who Know Too Much
  • Chapter 4. Pygmalion's Enthusiasm and the Fires of Nymphomania, or The Psychology of Art and Desire
  • Chapter 5. The Model Pygmalion and the Artist Galatea
  • Chapter 6. Inspired by Heloise
  • Conclusion: Closing the Circle, Opening the End
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index