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Author Steiner, Wendy, 1949-

Title Venus in exile : the rejection of beauty in twentieth-century art / Wendy Steiner.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  NX650.F45 S75 2001    Available  ---
Description xxv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-270) and index.
Contents Psyche's pleasure -- Monster sublime -- Burden of the image -- Infamous promiscuity of things and of women -- Quotation of beauty -- Bride of Frankenstein : at home with the outsider -- Judgment of Paris -- Modeling beauty.
Subject Women in art.
Women in art.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Arts, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Philosophy.
Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Philosophy.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Kunst.
Schoonheid.
Vrouwelijkheid.
Vrouwenhaat.
ISBN 0684857812
9780684857817