The Trouble with BeautyRandom House, 2001 - 291 páginas Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Where previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the twentieth century modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament. Modernism's rejection of traditional tenets of beauty--harmony, empathy and femininity--still reverberate through both art and society today. |
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The Monster Sublime | 1 |
The Burden of the Image | 32 |
The Infamous Promiscuity of Things and of Women | 72 |
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