Venus in Exile
Title | Venus in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Steiner |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2002-11-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226772400 |
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
Title | Venus in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Steiner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2008-12-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781437964110 |
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were suspicious of beauty and its symbols, woman and ornament. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating today. Steiner¿s analysis explores the 20th cent. troubled relationship with beauty. Tracing this damaging history, starting from Kant¿s aesthetics and Shelley¿s response in ¿Frankenstein,¿ Steiner untangles the complex attitudes of modernists toward both beauty and the female subject in art. Only in recent years has our culture begun to see a way out of of this impasse, revising the reputations of neglected artists such as Pierre Bonnard, and celebrating pleasures and charm in the arts of the present. Illus.
Exile From Venus
Title | Exile From Venus PDF eBook |
Author | E. Hoffmann Price |
Publisher | Alpha Edition |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2021-10-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789355340931 |
Exile From Venus, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in high quality, using the original text and artwork so that they can be preserved for the present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Exile Child
Title | Exile Child PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Franco |
Publisher | Random Creations |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781843862178 |
Torn from her South African tribe by Dutch settlers, sold as a slave, trapped in a world of debauchery and trickery, humiliated whilst living in early 19th century London and Paris, Sarah Bartmann clings desperately to her beliefs, and to the memories of her native land. Exile Child is more than just her story. It is a tale of hope, of courage beyond human endurance, of the power of the human spirit, of a young woman who refuses to give in to the alien world into which she has been so violently thrust. Exile Child is a historically correct and compassionate portrayal of one of South Africa's most tragic heroines This story gives an insight into the hopes and dreams of this Sarah Bartmann, who through past centuries has come to symbolise both the dispossession of Africans and the reinstatement of women's dignity. This flesh and blood portrayal of Sarah Bartmann is in direct contrast to the caricature presented as "The Hottentot Venus," that has been characterised by Western society for many centuries and this book follows Sarah's final journey back to her homeland in 2002.
The Birth of Venus
Title | The Birth of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Dunant |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2004-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1588364429 |
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.
Venus Revealed
Title | Venus Revealed PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Grinspoon |
Publisher | Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1997-01-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
"Early robot probes sent by Russian and American scientists had given us some tantalizing but fragmentary glimpses of the surface and atmosphere, hinting at some of the most exotic conditions seen in the solar system. Magellan showed a planet full of beautiful landscapes, some eerily familiar and some completely unexpected - a world of active volcanoes, shining mountains, and even river valleys carved by torrents of flowing lava. Venus may once have had a wet, temperate, comfortable climate, much like Earth's. What happened to turn it into a hostile, burning, acid world? Our twin has important tales to tell us regarding several of Earth's most pressing environmental problems, including ozone destruction, global warming, and acid rain. In Venus Revealed, David Grinspoon makes a compelling case for comparative planetology as an important tool for gaining knowledge that is vital for our long-term survival on our own planet. He re-examines the uniqueness of our own Earth in light of the recent Magellan findings, while also raising the provocative questions: Did a runaway greenhouse effect transform Venus into the burning oven she is today? By treating Venus as a "controlled experiment," what can we learn from her that will help us survive on Earth? Grinspoon tackles these and other long-debated questions while explaining the incredible scientific advances made possible by the Magellan space probe."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Where is Ana Mendieta?
Title | Where is Ana Mendieta? PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Blocker |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780822323242 |
An analysis of the career of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American feminist artist who came to prominence in the late 70s and early 80s, in terms of gender and performance theory.