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

Wendy Steiner

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

Wendy Steiner

304 pages first pub 1901 (editions)

nonfiction art feminism challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Tracing this strange and damaging history, starting from Kant's aesthetics and Mary Shelley's horrified response in Frankenstein, Steiner untangles the complex attitudes of modernists toward both beauty and the female subject in art. She argues t...

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