The Aesthetics of Power
The Aesthetics of Power
Out of Print
The Aesthetics of Power gathers together the key articles and essays by Carol Duncan, one of the pioneers of a new socio-political approach to art history and criticism, and one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge in the 1970s and '80s. These essays, many of which have become classics, explore a wide variety of subjects: images of mothers, fathers, and children in eighteenth century art and culture; the image of the female nude in the context of the modern museum; and the role of modern art criticism in today's art market. Other essays examine the contexts in which art is seen, taught, and made. Whatever her theme, Duncan treats art as a working part of a larger social reality and a pathway to understanding its deepest tensions, fears, and desires. A final section of this book is devoted to the life and collected critical writings of Cheryl Bernstein, a fictitious critic created by Duncan as parody, but who was taken as a real and eventually influential, critic.
Product details
July 1993Hardback
9780521420440
250 pages
247 × 174 mm
0.881kg
53 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print December 1999
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Illustrations
- Part I. Mothers, Fathers and Monarchs:
- 1. Happy mothers and other new ideas in eighteenth-century French art
- 2. Fallen fathers: images of authority in pre-revolutionary French art
- 3. Ingres and the politics of the restoration
- Part II. Modern Art and the Social Relations Between the Sexes:
- 4. Virility and domination in early twentieth-century vanguard painting
- 5. The esthetics of power
- 6. When greatness is a box of wheaties
- Part III. Teaching, Talking aand Exhibition Art: Institutional Settings:
- 7. Teaching the rich
- 8. Neutralising the age of revolution
- 9. Making an art of work
- 10. In the eye of the soldier
- 11. Who rules the art world?
- 12. The momas hot momas
- Part IV. The Life and Works of Cheryl Bernstein:
- 13. Introduction by Carol Duncan
- 14. The fake as more by Cheryl Bernstein
- 15. Performance as news: notes on an intermedia guerilla art group by Cheryl Bernstein.
