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

The author of "The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism" now takes an ambitious and provocative new look at the evolving definition of "beauty" in our culture, from Manet to Mapplethorpe, Mary Shelley to Martha Stewart.

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Title of ebook: Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art
ISBN: 9780743218801
Publisher: Free Press
Internet download file size: 365 kb
Pages: 304
Released online for download: 08-16-2001
Author of eBook: Steiner, Wendy

Chapter One

The Monster Sublime

For the creator himself to be the child new-born he must also be willing to be the mother and endure the mother's pain.
— FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, 1895

Man owes it to his incongruously developed reason that he is grotesque and ugly. He has broken away from nature. He thinks that he dominates nature. He thinks he is the measure of all things. Engendering in opposition to the laws of nature, man creates monstrosities.
— HANS ARP, 1948

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. It arose from the Enlightenment notion of the sublime and from a disgust toward women and the bourgeoisie that had been building throughout the nineteenth century among increasingly disaffected artists and writers. During the very period, in fact, when the female subject was the predominant symbol of beauty in all the arts, an ideology was taking shape that would displace her entirely, and that ideology became the basis of the twentieth-century ... read full excerpt from Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art ebook