The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism
Wendy Steiner. University of Chicago Press, $22.5 (263pp) ISBN 978-0-226-77224-0
Art is a ""virtual"" pleasure that indulges our taste for sublimity and acts as a proving ground for liberalism, argues the noted English professor. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 11/24/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 263 pages - 978-0-226-77223-3