TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheriff,Mary D.
TI  - Moved by love: inspired artists and deviant women in eighteenth-century France 
SN  - 9780226752846 (electronic bk.)
AV  - NX549.A1 S49 2004eb
U1  - 700/.82/0944 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Héloïse,
KW  - Arts, French
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - History
KW  - Pygmalion (Greek mythology)
KW  - Arts français
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Thèmes, motifs
KW  - Femmes dans la littérature
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Pygmalion (Mythologie grecque)
KW  - ART
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Performance
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-295) and index; 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
N2  - 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 were seen as especially susceptible to these negative consequences of creative enthusiasm, and women artists, doubly so. Mary D. Sheriff uses these very different visions of enthusiasm to explore the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body and the mind in eighteenth-century Fra
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