Authors Duncan, Carol.
Title The aesthetics of power : essays in the critical art history / Carol Duncan
Publication Info Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993
Location Call Number Status
 Watson Library Stacks  100.12 D91    REQUESTABLE
Description xvii, 230 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
Series Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Contents Pt. 1. 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's Vow of Louis XIII and the Politics of the Restoration -- Pt. 2. Modern Art and the Social Relations Between the Sexes -- 4. Virility and Domination in Early Twentieth-Century Vanguard Painting -- 5. The Esthetics of Power in Modern Erotic Art -- 6. When Greatness is a Box of Wheaties -- Pt. 3. Teaching, Talking and Exhibiting Art: Institutional Settings -- 7. Teaching the Rich -- 8. Neutralizing 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 MoMA's Hot Mamas -- Pt. 4. The Life and Works of Cheryl Bernstein -- 13. Introduction / Carol Duncan -- 14. The Fake as More / Cheryl Bernstein -- 15. Performance as News: Notes on an Intermedia Guerrilla Art Group / Cheryl Bernstein
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subjects Art and society.
Feminism and art.
Art -- Political aspects.
Series Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
ISBN 052142044X (hardback)
052142187X (pbk.)
OCLC 59930984