Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson -- Camille Paglia, Paperback
The fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals--"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit" ( The Washington Post).
Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists--as well as conservatives--fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty--making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature.
With 47 photographs.
Author: Camille Paglia
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 8/20/1991
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 8.02" H x 5.22" L x 1.52" W
ISBN: 9780679735793
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