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      The Beauty of Choice

      Wendy Steiner

      The renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art…

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      Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

      Wendy Steiner

      Ever since the renaissance, the female body has been a primary symbol of artistic beauty in the West. With the advent of the avant-garde and modernist art, beauty became suspect…

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      The Sign in Music and Literature

      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.

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      The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art

      Wendy Steiner

      Our era is defined by the model. From Victoria’s Secret and America’s Next Top Model to the snapshots we post on Face-book and Twitter, our culture is fixated on the…

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      The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism

      Wendy Steiner

      Surveys a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie’s death sentence. This book seeks to show that the fear and outrage these events inspired were…

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      Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature

      Wendy Steiner

      How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals…

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      Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature

      Wendy Steiner

      How do pictures tell stories? Why does the literary romance so often refer to paintings and other visual art objects? Beginning with these two seemingly unrelated questions, Wendy Steiner reveals…

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      Frankenstein

      Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

      Frankenstein .

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      The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz

      Sarah Davis,Jeannine Falino,Wendy Steiner,Patricia Harris,David Lyon

      The Art & Times of Daniel Jocz presents the entrancing work of American jewellery artist and sculptor Daniel Jocz and his surrounding of the Boston jewellery scene of the late…

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