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Life Info. Bio. Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, past Chair of the Penn English Department, and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum. Among her books on modern literature and visual art are The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010); Venus in Exile: The ...
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Steiner argues that these cases rest on a dangerous...
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This Elegant Mountain A book about the education and arts of...
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Wendy Steiner holds the Richard L. Fisher Professorship of...
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Wendy Steiner. Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum from 1999–2010. Among her books on modern literature and visual art are The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010), Venus in Exile: The ...
Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, past Chair of the Penn English Department, and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum. Her fields are 20th-21st-century literature, visual art, and aesthetics. Among her books are The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art ...
Mar 1, 2024 · In The Beauty of Choice, the renowned cultural critic Wendy Steiner offers a dazzling new account of aesthetics grounded in female agency. Through a series of linked meditations on canonical and contemporary literature and art, she casts women’s taste as the engine of liberal values. But what sparked her to find her voice in the
Wendy Steiner is the author of numerous books, including The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art and Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art. She is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and founding director of the Penn Humanities Forum.
