The author of this book said it was "intended to please no one and offend everyone.
This book defines idolatry as "pictorialism plus the will-to-power" and presents the Greek "beautiful boy" who appears in the works of Donatello and Dorian Gray as an example of Western pictorialism. The author of this book said it was "intended to please no one and offend everyone." This book gives its title archetypes from Western culture as beginning with the Venus of Willendorf, who is given as an example of a world in the absence of any Apollonian element. This book argues that the period of pregnancy induces an agonizing "agon of psychological dependency" in (*) men, who fear woman as the raw representation of nature. This book's original cover presents a mashup of the sculptor Thutmose's bust of Nefertiti and a picture of Emily Dickinson. For 10 points, name this book about decadence in visual arts written by Camille Paglia.
This book defines idolatry as "pictorialism plus the will-to-power" and presents the Greek "beautiful boy" who appears in the works of Donatello and Dorian Gray as an example of Western pictorialism.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson