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Apr 22, 2014 · Months before her death, Susan Sontag — who had a lifetime of strong opinions on art and who coined the notion of “aesthetic consumerism” — wrote a spectacular essay titled “An Argument Against Beauty,” found in the 2007 posthumous anthology At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches (public library), the superb volume that gave us Sontag on courage and resistance and literature and ...
Susan Sontag An argument about beauty 1 Susan Sontag was elected a Fellow of the Ameri-can Academy in 1993. Best known as a novelist and essayist–her books have been translated in-to thirty-two languages–she also composed sto-ries and plays, wrote and directed movies, and worked as a theatre director in the United States and Europe.
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Jan 20, 2015 · Jan 20, '15 6:52 PM EST. 4. The perennial tendency to make of beauty itself a binary concept, to split it up into “inner” and “outer,” “higher” and “lower” beauty, is the usual way that judgments of the beautiful are colonized by moral judgments. — brain pickings. Susan Sontag would have been 82 years old this week.
Oct 8, 2019 · A 95-cent Dell paperback with a front-cover photograph of the author, Susan Sontag. There is no doubt that the picture was part of the book’s allure — the angled, dark-eyed gaze, the knowing ...
Jul 6, 2015 · In The Aesthetics of Silence, the first essay from her altogether indispensable 1969 collection Styles of Radical Will (public library), Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933–December 28, 2004) examines how silence mediates the role of art as a form of spirituality in an increasingly secular culture. Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar
Feb 4, 2011 · Today I had the pleasure of reading a 1978 essay by Susan Sontag titled The Double Standard of Aging. I was struck by how plainly and convincingly she described the role of attractiveness in men’s and women’s lives: [For women, o]nly one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture ...
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Oct 15, 2023 · Susan Sontag’s 1965 essay On Style outlined her philosophy of the function of style within art and literature. In the mid-twentieth century, criticism was dominated by external frameworks, like Freudian analysis or Marxist critique. These movements tended to think of style as separate from the artwork’s meaning.
