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The Rape of the Masters. How Political Correctness Sabotages Art.
Roger Kimball
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Description for The Rape of the Masters. How Political Correctness Sabotages Art.
Paperback. Exposes the charlatanry that fuels academic art history and leaks into the art world generally. Num Pages: 200 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 183 x 16. Weight in Grams: 361.
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pictures are psychodramas about "castration anxiety." Or that Gauguin's Manao tupapau is an example of the way repression is "written on the bodies of women." Or that Jan van Eyck's ... Read more
Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pictures are psychodramas about "castration anxiety." Or that Gauguin's Manao tupapau is an example of the way repression is "written on the bodies of women." Or that Jan van Eyck's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594031212
SKU
V9781594031212
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About Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.
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