Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Audiobook
Descriere
In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes, from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence.
Despre autor
Camille Anna Paglia este o academiciană, critic socială și feministă americană. Paglia a fost profesor la Universitatea de Arte din Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, din 1984 până la închiderea universității în 2024. Ea este critică față de multe aspecte ale culturii moderne și este autoarea cărții Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) și a altor cărți.