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

304 pages first pub 1901 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 reje...

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