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

ISBN-13: 9780226772400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 280 str.

University of Chicago Press; Wendy Steiner

Opis

Ever since the renaissance, the female body has been a primary symbol of artistic beauty in the West. With the advent of the avant-garde and modernist art, beauty became suspect. This work explores how this happened, tracing the century's troubled relationship with beauty.