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


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Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art Wendy Steiner
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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 brilliant, ambitious, and provocative analysis explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Tracing this strange and damaging history, starting from Kant's aesthetics and Mary Shelley's ...

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