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With The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism, University of Pennsylvania English professor Steiner weighed in on the NEA funding controversies and Rushdie fatwa, finding our age literal-minded about how artistic images function in society. Scandal was named a New York Times Best Book for 1996. In this follow-up, Steiner posits that, unlike in previous eras, female beauty is no longer "the central aim of art." Whizzing through literature, visual arts, architecture, etc., Steiner muses on this theme in eight sections with titles like "The Infamous Promiscuity of Things and of Women" and "The Bride of Frankenstein: At Home with the Outsider." (She skirts topics like film and dance since beautiful women are still at the center of things there.) One obvious problem with such an all-embracing study is any author's human limits of expertise, but Steiner's judgments throughout seem to have been made in haste and ignorance. She lumps together painters (Gustave Moreau, Alphonse Mucha, Pierre Bonnard, Norman Rockwell) and writers (Penelope Fitzgerald, Andrei Makine, Philip Roth ) who have little in common apart from having once been thought "too pretty" and now acceptable, or else those who are "pointing us back toward beauty." Steiner thinks art should create a "win-win situation," where through "communication" and "mutuality" one begins to understand the "value" of "feminine" "beauty," but her engagement with the juggernaut of these terms, and of gender and representation in general, can be murky and baffling. ("[A] true prostitute's effects are indifferent to class, like the diseases she spreads," Steiner writes, unreflectively.) For Steiner, the art of the 20th century, "an art of garbage, babble, obscenity," is emblematized by Mapplethorpe's "classicistic renderings of gay sadomasochism." In trying to deal with all the arts, Steiner is illuminating on none of them.
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Steiner, author of The Scandal of Pleasure (1995), looks into why modern artists rejected the voluptuous female form, an aesthetic revolt that she sees as an all-out rejection of beauty. With references to the Kantian sublime and Mary Shelley's humanistic protest against the impersonalization of beauty in Frankenstein, Manet's Olympia, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, she interprets the abstraction of modernist art and its fascination with purity of form as a refutation of women, ornament, decoration, and all classic images of beauty. The avant-garde believed that beauty had to be stripped from art to free art from the bourgeois values embedded in romanticism, a tradition that seemed hopelessly inappropriate for the horrific twentieth century. Scholarly but eminently readable, Steiner moves on to assess contemporary revivals of traditional beauty in art, which follow society's cycles of worship and vilification of women, both in the flesh and as representative of idealized beauty. Regina Schroeder
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