The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art
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The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art (2004) is a book by Roger Kimball, a critical account of contemporary academic art history and its infatuation with "theory" and the "transgressive" at the expense of aesthetic appreciation and a traditional view of the ennobling resources of art. Among the figures Kimball discusses are Michael Fried on Gustave Courbet, Svetlana Alpers on Peter Paul Rubens, Griselda Pollock on Paul Gauguin, and Martin Heidegger and Meyer Schapiro on Vincent van Gogh.
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