The Rape of the Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rape of the Masters write by Roger Kimball. This book was released on 2005-11-25. The Rape of the Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pictures are psychodramas about "castration anxiety." Or that Gauguin's Manao tupapau is an example of the way repression is "written on the bodies of women." Or that Jan van Eyck's masterful Arnolfini Portrait is about "middle-class deceptions ... and the treatment of women." Or that Mark Rothko's abstract White Band (Number 27) "parallels the pictorial structure of a pieta." Or that Winslow Homer's The Gulf Stream is "a visual encoding of racism." In "The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art," Kimball, a noted art critic himself, shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics--feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, the whole armory of academic antihumanism. To make his point, he describes how eight famous works of art (reprinted here as illustrations) have been made over to fit a radical ideological fantasy. Kimball then performs a series of intellectual rescue operations, explaining how these great works should be understood through a series of illuminating readings in which art, not politics, guides the discussion.
The Rape of the Masters
The Rape of the Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rape of the Masters write by Roger Kimball. This book was released on 2005. The Rape of the Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this witty and provocative book, a noted art critic shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics--feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the whole armory of academic antihumanism.
Spoon River Anthology
Spoon River Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spoon River Anthology write by Edgar Lee Masters. This book was released on 2012-03-02. Spoon River Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVAn American poetry classic, in which former citizens of a mythical midwestern town speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes and dreams of their lives. /div
Dark Rival
Dark Rival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dark Rival write by Brenda Joyce. This book was released on 2007-10-01. Dark Rival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highland warriors sworn to protect Innocence throughout the Ages—A golden man, he is called Black Royce—a battle-hardened soldier of the gods. His vows are his life—until he is sent to New York City to protect a Healer from those who would use her powers for themselves. The moment Royce sees beautiful, feisty Allie Monroe, he knows she will be his only weakness—and he is right. Destiny is a dangerous thingAllie Monroe is more than an heiress. She is a Healer, willing to do anything to save victims of the evil that lurks in the city at night. But alone, she can do only so much—until destiny sends her the darkest Highlander of them all. Then evil strikes and Royce is destroyed before Allie's eyes. Now Allie will do anything to save Royce—even if it means going back in time to a dark, dangerous world. Confronting their enemies could cost not only their lives, but their love—for all eternity.
The Rape of Europa
The Rape of Europa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rape of Europa write by Lynn H. Nicholas. This book was released on 2009-12-22. The Rape of Europa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a sweeping narrative of greed, philistinism, and heroism that combines superlative scholarship with a compelling drama.
