Loading Inventory...

Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Wendy Steiner

Current price: $36.50
Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Wendy Steiner

Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Current price: $36.50
Loading Inventory...

Size: 1.2 x 9.25 x 1

Visit retailer's website
*Product information may vary - to confirm product availability, pricing, shipping and return information please contact Coles
In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of art—the female subject and ornament—became modernist taboos. To this day it is hard to champion beauty in art without sounding aesthetically or politically retrograde. Steiner argues instead that the experience of beauty is a form of communication, a subject-object interchange in which finding someone or something beautiful is at the same time recognizing beauty in oneself. This idea has led artists and writers such as Marlene Dumas, Christopher Bram, and Cindy Sherman to focus on the long-ignored figure of the model, who function in art as both a subject and an object. Steiner concludes Venus in Exile on a decidedly optimistic note, demonstrating that beauty has created a new and intensely pleasurable direction for contemporary artistic practice. | Venus in Exile by Wendy Steiner, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

More About Coles at Bayshore Shopping Centre

Coles is renowned for its outstanding customer service and great selection of books. Along with the vast array of magazines, stationary, audio-books, children's literature, fiction, non-fiction and reference books, you can find accessories to make your reading experience more pleasurable. We can recommend the very best in reading today. We will help you search our titles for exactly what you need, and if we do not have it in stock, we will order it for you.

100 Bayshore Dr, Nepean, ON K2B 8C1, Canada

Powered by Adeptmind