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The Forbidden Subject

- How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts

About The Forbidden Subject

How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed `the forbidden subject'? This book reviews the devastating impacts modernist avant-garde, Marxism, some feminisms and postmodernism have enacted - through paranoia, blame, cynicism - on beauty, hope and desire.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781912186099
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 260
  • Published:
  • July 22, 2019
  • Dimensions:
  • 237x158x26 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 582 g.
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Expected delivery: July 11, 2024

Description of The Forbidden Subject

How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed `the forbidden subject'? This book reviews the devastating impacts modernist avant-garde, Marxism, some feminisms and postmodernism have enacted - through paranoia, blame, cynicism - on beauty, hope and desire.

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