Venus in Exile
Wendy Steiner · 2001
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"Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all her charms, into exile, Wendy Steiner's analysis explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty."--BOOK JACKET.
First sentence: In the twentieth century, the avant-garde declared a clean break with history, but their hostility to the female subject and the beauty she symbolized had deep roots in the past.
Book details
- Year
- 2001
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780684857817
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