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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456708203321

Autore

Kimball Roger <1953->

Titolo

The rape of the masters [[electronic resource] ] : how political correctness sabotages art / / Roger Kimball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA, : Encounter

Lancaster, : Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor], 2004

ISBN

1-282-74742-8

9786612747427

1-59403-302-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Disciplina

700.103

Soggetti

Politics in art

Political correctness

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; A Note on Sources; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Psychoanalyzing Courbet; A straightforward realist?; "Presentness" on parade; Structurally feminine art?; The triumph of the imaginary; Chapter 2 - Inventing Mark Rothko; Was Rothko a realist?; Rothko and "the human drama"; The structure of a piet�; Chapter 3 - Fantasizing Sargent; Inflections, nuance, possibility; Today's "interpretive horizon"; A campaign for decivilization; Beyond the bounds of credibility; Chapter 4 - Inebriating Rubens; "The Apelles of our age"; Rubens as Silenus?

Chapter 5 - Modernizing Winslow HomerThe quintessential Yankee; Sharks and other "outside matters"; Homer and the race card; Chapter 6 - Fetishizing Gauguin; The artificial savage; Dreaming before nature; Avant-garde fetishization; Chapter 7 - Deconcealing van Gogh; Was van Gogh a metaphysician?; Verbal vertigo; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Notes; Index; Copyright Page

Sommario/riassunto

""The Rape of the Masters"" exposes the charlatanry that fuels much academic art history and leaks into the art world generally, affecting galleries, museums and catalogues. It also provides an engaging



antidote to the tendentious, politically motivated assaults on our treasured sources of culture and civilization.