02917nam 2200565Ia 450 991078082340332120230617003624.01-282-74742-897866127474271-59403-302-1(CKB)2520000000009128(EBL)485416(OCoLC)798534334(SSID)ssj0000474935(PQKBManifestationID)11315637(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000474935(PQKBWorkID)10462818(PQKB)10244035(MiAaPQ)EBC485416(Au-PeEL)EBL485416(CaPaEBR)ebr10364660(EXLCZ)99252000000000912820050608d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe rape of the masters[electronic resource] how political correctness sabotages art /Roger KimballSan Francisco, CA Encounter ;Lancaster Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor]20041 online resource (166 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-59403-121-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 pietà?; 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""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.Politics in artPolitical correctnessPolitics in art.Political correctness.700.103Kimball Roger1953-1482093MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780823403321The rape of the masters3699475UNINA