The rape of the masters : how political correctness sabotages art / Roger Kimball.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimball, Roger, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics in art.

Political correctness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Encounter ; Lancaster : Gazelle Drake Academic [distributor], 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612747427

9781282747425

1282747428

9781594033025

1594033021

OCLC:

798534334