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Passionate Discontent: Creativity, Gender, and French Symbolist Art (1st Edition) by Townley Mathews (Patricia) Hardcover, 323 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-226-51018-2 / 0226510182 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-51018-7 / 9780226510187 Passionate Discontent is an erudite study of the relationship between gender and genius in late nineteenth-century French Symbolism. Born in an era of crisis, the Symbolist art movement was characterized by withdrawal to a mystical, antibourgeois world of the mind and spirit. While Symbolists ideali |