Sexual Personae Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson

Author: Camille Paglia

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  • : $52.50 AUD
  • : 9780679735793
  • : Random House
  • : Vintage
  • : September 1991
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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.