[PDF.41gw] Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

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 | #1710741 in eBooks |  2001-10-24 |  2001-10-24 | File type: PDF

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||16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| The Sublime Gone Wrong|By AC|Steiner recasts the thread of 20th century art as the search for the sublime gone wrong. The Kantian definition of the sublime as that which inspires awe and disinterested interest has lead to a dehumanization of art. According to her,this has come about because in the search for the eternal values that are associated with the sublime, the merel|From Publishers Weekly|With The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism, University of Pennsylvania English professor Steiner weighed in on the NEA funding controversies and Rushdie fatwa, finding our age literal-minded about how artistic images fun

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 brilliant, ambitious, and provocativ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art   |  Wendy Steiner. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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