Sexual Personae - Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author(s): Camille Paglia
Is Emily Dickinson the female Sade? Is Donatello's David a bit of paedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between the Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists - as well as conservatives - fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty - making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilisation and demonic nature.
General Information
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- : Random House
- : Vintage
- : 0.68
- : 01 September 1991
- : 203mm X 133mm X 39mm
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Camille Paglia
- : English
- : very good
- : 718