Camille Paglia Takes a Personal Tour Through All Art Ever Made
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
By J.M. Tyree
There always have been two sides to Camille Paglia’s career as a celebrity cultural pundit and best-selling arts critic. Paglia’s new book, "Glittering Images," a personal tour through All Art Ever Made, from ancient Egypt to "Star Wars," is the kind of Plato-to-NATO survey whose passing she laments in her introductory essay as a casualty of the culture wars. Fortunately, this book, despite its vast scope and mostly chronological arrangement from 2800 B.C. to 2005, makes no attempt to be systematic or totalizing, being modeled instead on "Catholic breviaries of devotional images, like Mass cards of the saints." [link]
By J.M. Tyree
There always have been two sides to Camille Paglia’s career as a celebrity cultural pundit and best-selling arts critic. Paglia’s new book, "Glittering Images," a personal tour through All Art Ever Made, from ancient Egypt to "Star Wars," is the kind of Plato-to-NATO survey whose passing she laments in her introductory essay as a casualty of the culture wars. Fortunately, this book, despite its vast scope and mostly chronological arrangement from 2800 B.C. to 2005, makes no attempt to be systematic or totalizing, being modeled instead on "Catholic breviaries of devotional images, like Mass cards of the saints." [link]
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