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Author Sheriff, Mary D.

Title Moved by love : inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France / Mary Sheriff.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX549.A1 S49 2004    Available  ---
Description xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index.
Contents 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 Arts, French -- 18th century -- Themes, motives.
Arts, French.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Themes, motives.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 18th century.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
History.
Pygmalion (Mythological character)
Pygmalion (Mythological character)
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
Héloïse, approximately 1095-1163 or 1164.
ISBN 0226752879 alkaline paper
0226752887 paperback alkaline paper