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Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson [non-booktrade only]
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Author: Camille Paglia
In this blazing work of brilliant originality, a phenomenon ever since it was first published in 1990, Camille Paglia outlines a new unified theory of Western art and literature and the primacy of sex and violence within it. Identifying the competing symbolic forces of Apollo and Dionysus – reason and instinct, order and chaos, logic and passion, male and female, civilisation and nature 'Sexual Personae' outlines key archetypes that embody different levels of Apollonian and Dionysian forces.Paglia traces how these archetypes – the Great Mother, the beautiful boy, the femme fatale, the amazon, amongst many others – have animated the pagan battle that underlies all Western art and culture. Audacious, vastly erudite, and wildly entertaining, 'Sexual Personae' is art history that invites us to see the entire world anew.
ISBN 9781761382000. Scribe Publications. pb. 736 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
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In this blazing work of brilliant originality, a phenomenon ever since it was first published in 1990, Camille Paglia outlines a new unified theory of Western art and literature and the primacy of sex and violence within it. Identifying the competing symbolic forces of Apollo and Dionysus – reason and instinct, order and chaos, logic and passion, male and female, civilisation and nature 'Sexual Personae' outlines key archetypes that embody different levels of Apollonian and Dionysian forces.Paglia traces how these archetypes – the Great Mother, the beautiful boy, the femme fatale, the amazon, amongst many others – have animated the pagan battle that underlies all Western art and culture. Audacious, vastly erudite, and wildly entertaining, 'Sexual Personae' is art history that invites us to see the entire world anew.
ISBN 9781761382000. Scribe Publications. pb. 736 pages. 19.8 x 12.9 cm.
available