In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty.

Steiner (English, Univ. of Pennsylvania) delivers a lucidly written elaboration of "interactive aesthetics" first broached in her examination of the revival of beauty in contemporary art, Venus in Exile (2001).

Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, Wendy Steiner shows that the fear and outrage they inspired are the result of dangerous misunderstanding about the ...

This volume represents a unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism.

Wendy Steiner reveals an intricate exchange between the visual arts and the literary romance.

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.

This deeply original book gives taste, beauty, and pleasure central roles in a passionate defense of women’s freedom.

Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty.

The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz' presents the entrancing, challenging, sometimes beautiful, and always clever work of American jewelry artist and sculptor Daniel Jocz.