{"product_id":"the-rape-of-the-masters-by-roger-kimball-9781893554863","title":"The Rape of the Masters","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKimball, a noted art critic himself, shows how academic art history is increasingly held hostage to radical cultural politics—feminism, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, the whole armoury of academic anti-humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo make his point, Kimball shows how eight famous works of art (reprinted here as illustrations) have been made over to fit a radical ideological fantasy. Kimball then performs a series of intellectual rescue operations, showing how these great works should be understood through a series of illuminating readings in which art, not politics, guides the discussion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47600180953324,"sku":"9781893554863","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8cc2d29f9bf147705d6123904667987d.jpg?v=1778020926","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-rape-of-the-masters-by-roger-kimball-9781893554863","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}