The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal values.
The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women's taste as the engine of liberal values.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Wendy Steiner is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an opera librettist and multimedia artist. Her many acclaimed books include The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995) and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I. I Like, Therefore We Are Introduction: The Loathly Lady and #MeToo 1. That Pleasure Is Past Doubt: A Note on Method 2. The Women's Work of Evolution 3. "The Achieve of, the Mastery of the Thing!": The Art of Barbara MacCallum Part II. The Testimony of Our Changeful Will 4. #MeToo and Artistic Freedom 5. Power Play: Picasso and His Models 6. The Ornament of Nudity 7. MD-light: The Art of Marlene Dumas Part III. An Ecology of Beauty 8. Waste Not, Want Not: The Extravagance of Beauty 9. Pearls of Empathy: The Art of Kristin Beeler Part IV. Refashioning the Social Contract 10. Art Against Rape: Kosovo's Heroines 11. The Love Tricks of Liberalism Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Part I. I Like, Therefore We Are Introduction: The Loathly Lady and #MeToo 1. That Pleasure Is Past Doubt: A Note on Method 2. The Women's Work of Evolution 3. "The Achieve of, the Mastery of the Thing!": The Art of Barbara MacCallum Part II. The Testimony of Our Changeful Will 4. #MeToo and Artistic Freedom 5. Power Play: Picasso and His Models 6. The Ornament of Nudity 7. MD-light: The Art of Marlene Dumas Part III. An Ecology of Beauty 8. Waste Not, Want Not: The Extravagance of Beauty 9. Pearls of Empathy: The Art of Kristin Beeler Part IV. Refashioning the Social Contract 10. Art Against Rape: Kosovo's Heroines 11. The Love Tricks of Liberalism Notes Bibliography Index
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