The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art

In this witty and provocative book, a noted art critic shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics--feminism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and the whole armory of academic antihumanism.

Introduction: The Rape of the Masters; Psychoanalysing Courbet; Inventing Mark Rothko; Fantasising Sargent; Inebriating Rubens; Modernising Winslow Homer; Fetishising Gauguin; Deconcealing van Gogh; Index.