Steiner The Beauty of Choice

On Women, Art, and Freedom
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-56070-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steiner, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I. I Like, Therefore We Are
Introduction: The Loathly Lady and #MeToo
1. That Pleasure Is Past Doubt: A Note on Method
2. The Women’s Work of Evolution
3. “The Achieve of, the Mastery of the Thing!”: The Art of Barbara MacCallum
Part II. The Testimony of Our Changeful Will
4. #MeToo and Artistic Freedom
5. Power Play: Picasso and His Models
6. The Ornament of Nudity
7. MD-light: The Art of Marlene Dumas
Part III. An Ecology of Beauty
8. Waste Not, Want Not: The Extravagance of Beauty
9. Pearls of Empathy: The Art of Kristin Beeler
Part IV. Refashioning the Social Contract
10. Art Against Rape: Kosovo’s Heroines
11. The Love Tricks of Liberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wendy Steiner is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania as well as an opera librettist and multimedia artist. Her many acclaimed books include The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism (1995) and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001).