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" is a critical study that examines how and why modern and contemporary art turned away from traditional ideals of beauty throughout the twentieth century.

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instanceOf art criticism book
book
argues beauty can have ethical and social value
beauty has been marginalized in twentieth-century art discourse
author Wendy Steiner NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques dominance of irony in contemporary art
suspicion of beauty in modernist theory
discipline aesthetics
art history
cultural studies
examines avant-garde movements
cultural attitudes toward beauty
feminist perspectives on beauty
historical shift away from beauty in art
relationship between aesthetics and ethics
focusesOn contemporary art
modern art
rejection of traditional beauty ideals
genre art history
cultural criticism
hasForm monograph
hasPerspective critical
historical
theoretical
intendedAudience general readers interested in modern art
scholars of art history
students of aesthetics
language English
mainSubject aesthetics
beauty in art
modernism
postmodernism
twentieth-century art NERFINISHED
periodCovered 20th century
titleContains The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art NERFINISHED
Venus in Exile NERFINISHED

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Wendy Steiner notableWork Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art