The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts

How did beauty become, and why does it largely remain, what Emory Elliot dubbed `the forbidden subject’? This book reviews the devastating impacts modernist avant-garde, Marxism, some feminisms and postmodernism have enacted – through paranoia, blame, cynicism – on beauty, hope and desire.

• | Author: Peter Quigley
• | Publisher: White Horse Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 22, 2019
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781912186099
• | ISBN-10: 1912186098