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The Sign in Music and Literature

Product Description: The notion of semiotics as a universal language that can encompass any object of perception makes it the focus of a revolutionary field of inquiry, the semiotics of art. This volume represents a unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism...read more

By Wendy Steiner (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780292775633 | Univ of Texas Pr, August 1, 1981, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The notion of semiotics as a universal language that can encompass any object of perception makes it the focus of a revolutionary field of inquiry, the semiotics of art.

9780405098666, titled "Political Parties" | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $29.95 | also contains Political Parties

Paperback:

9780292769342 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 21, 2014), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The notion of semiotics as a universal language that can encompass any object of perception makes it the focus of a revolutionary field of inquiry, the semiotics of art.

Boaz Vaadia: Sculpture 1971 - 2012

By Anthony Brown (introduced by), Ivan C. Karp (foreword by) and Wendy Steiner

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Hardcover:

9781555953768 | Hudson Hills Pr, May 16, 2013, cover price $60.00

Literature As Meaning

Product Description: Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, this brief, thematic anthology invites readers to explore vital human issues raised by various genres of the written word...read more

By Wendy Steiner (editor)

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9780321172068 | Longman Pub Group, March 10, 2005, cover price $46.67 | About this edition: Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, this brief, thematic anthology invites readers to explore vital human issues raised by various genres of the written word.

Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art

Product Description: In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty. Disdained by avant-garde artists, feminists, and activists, beauty and its major symbols of artâthe female subject and ornamentâbecame modernist taboos...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wendy Steiner

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9780684857817 | Free Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Demonstrates how the modernist avant-garde eliminated traditional symbols of beauty in its art and replaced them with the abstract form, and reflects on changing trends in the attutude toward beauty.

Paperback:

9780226772400 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 15, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In Venus in Exile renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner explores the twentieth century's troubled relationship with beauty.

Miscellaneous:

9780743218801 | Free Pr, October 24, 2001, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime.

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism

Product Description: Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, from canon-revision in the academy to the scandals that have surrounded Anthony Blunt, Martin Heidegger, and Paul de Man, Wendy Steiner shows that the fear and outrage they inspired are the result of dangerous misunderstanding about the relationship between art and life...read more

By Wendy Steiner

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9780226772233 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 18, 1995, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Argues for the freedom of the arts, as works of the imagination, against censors taking them literally, and discusses the work produced by individuals with objectionable political pasts

Paperback:

9780226772240 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 24, 1997, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Surveying a wide range of cultural controversies, from the Mapplethorpe affair to Salman Rushdie's death sentence, from canon-revision in the academy to the scandals that have surrounded Anthony Blunt, Martin Heidegger, and Paul de Man, Wendy Steiner shows that the fear and outrage they inspired are the result of dangerous misunderstanding about the relationship between art and life.

Andres Serrano: Works 1983-1993