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Author Duncan, Carol.

Title The aesthetics of power : essays in critical art history / Carol Duncan
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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 MELB  701.03 Dun/Aop  AVAILABLE
Description xvii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
Contents Happy mothers and other new ideas in eighteenth-century French art -- Fallen fathers : images of authority in pre-revolutionary French art -- Ingres's Vow of Louis XIII and the politics of the Restoration -- Virility and domination in early twentieth-century vanguard painting -- The esthetics of power in modern erotic art -- When greatness is a box of Wheaties -- Teaching the rich -- Neutralizing the age of revolution -- Making an art of work -- In the eye of the soldier -- Who rules the art world? -- The MoMA's hot mamas -- -- The fake as more / Cheryl Bernstein -- Performance as news : notes on an intermedia guerrilla art group / Cheryl Bernstein
Analysis Visual arts History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Aesthetics -- Political aspects.
Art and society.
Art -- Political aspects.
Feminism and art.
LC no. 92020448
ISBN 052142044X (hardback)
052142187X (paperback)