Venus in Exile
Subtitle: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780226772400
Subjects: Aesthetics; Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Theory of art; Art; Art & Art Instruction; General; Art / General; 20th century; Arts, Modern; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Philosophy; Women in art
First sentence: In the twentieth century, the avant-garde declared a clean break with history, but their hostility to the female subject and the beauty she symbolized had deep roots in the past.