Description: Venus in Exile : The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art, Paperback by Steiner, Wendy, ISBN 0226772403, ISBN-13 9780226772400, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Venus in Exile : the Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art
Number of Pages: 354 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Topic: General, Aesthetics, Subjects & Themes / Human Figure, History / General
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2002
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Reprint
Genre: Art, Philosophy
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Author: Wendy Steiner
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
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