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Venus in exile : the rejection of beauty in twentieth-century art

Print Book, English, 2002
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002
xxv, 280 pages : illustrations.
9780226772400, 0226772403
1056694070
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Venus in exile : the rejection of beauty in twentieth-century art / Wendy Steiner
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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Proem
Psyche's Pleasure
1. The Monster Sublime
2. The Burden of the Image
3. The Infamous Promiscuity of Things and of Women
4. The Quotation of Beauty
5. The Bride of Frankenstein: At Home with the Outsider
6. A Judgment of Paris
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Women in art, Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)Arts, Modern 20th century Philosophy, Arts, Modern 19th century Philosophy
Simultaneously published: New York : Free Press, 2001