Free Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]

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Free Press, Date: 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 2001. Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]

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New York: Free Press; Macmillan, Inc., Date: 2001. xxv, 280 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all her charms, into exile, Wendy Steiner's brilliant, ambitious, and provocative analysis explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Tracing this strange and damaging history, starting from Kant's aesthetics and Mary Shelley's horrified response in Frankenstein, Steiner untangles the complex attitudes of modernists toward both beauty and the female subject in art. She argues that the avant-garde set out to replace the impurity of woman and ornament with form -- the new arch-symbol of artistic beauty. However, in the process of controlling desire and pleasure in this way, artists admitted the exotic fetish objects of 'primitive' cultures -- someone else's power and allure that surely would not overmaster the sophisticated modernist. A century of pornography, shock, and alienation followed, and this rejection of feminine and bourgeois values ...

New York: The Free Press, Date: 2001. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). With a few b/w illustrations. xxv, 280pp. 8vo, rose cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: The Free Press, (2001). Cloth edges very slightly bumped, still a very good(+) copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/><br/> 2001. The Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]

Free Press, Date: 2001-07-31. First Edition. hardcover. Used:Good. 2001. Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]

New York: Free Press. Date: 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0684857812 . Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge of text block. ; 9.6 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 304 pages . 2001. Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]

Free Press, Date: 2001-07-31. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2001. Free Press ISBN 0684857812 9780684857817 [US]