Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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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.

  • Publisher: Vintage Books; Illustrated edition (20 August 1991)
  • Paperback: 718 pages
  • Dimensions: 13.06 x 3.73 x 20.24 cm
  • Language: English
  • Book Type: Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 9780679735793
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679735793
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