Venus in exile - rejection of beauty in tw

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author! most recently! of The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism! also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext In "Venus in Exile" renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists! feminists! and activists! beauty and its major symbols of art--the female subject and ornament--became modernist taboos. To this day it is hard to champion beauty in art without sounding aesthetically or politically retrograde. Steiner argues instead that the experience of beauty is a form of communication! a subject-object interchange in which finding someone or something beautiful is at the same time recognizing beauty in oneself. This idea has led artists and writers such as Marlene Dumas! Christopher Bram! and Cindy Sherman to focus on the long-ignored figure of the model! who function in art as both a subject and an object. Steiner concludes "Venus in Exile" on a decidedly optimistic note! demonstrating that beauty has created a new and intensely pleasurable direction for contemporary artistic practice. Zusammenfassung Ever since the renaissance! the female body has been a primary symbol of artistic beauty in the West. With the advent of the avant-garde and modernist art! beauty became suspect. This work explores how this happened! tracing the century's troubled relationship with beauty.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Wendy Steiner, Steiner Wendy
• Editore: External catalogues US
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 25.04.2003
• EAN: 9780226772400
• ISBN: 978-0-226-77240-0
• Dimensioni: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Cultural Studies, Theory of art, 20th Century, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Philosophy: aesthetics