Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France
- Author
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Sheriff, Mary D.
- Title
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Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France / Mary Sheriff.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Description
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xiii, 303 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- URL
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<Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2003001362.html
<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003001362.html
<Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2003001362.html
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
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Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164
- Kinsey subjects
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Women in art--France.
Sex in art--France.
Art history--France.
- ISBN
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0226752879 (alk. paper)
9780226752877 (alk. paper)
0226752887 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226752884 (pbk. : alk. paper)