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Camille Paglia: Culture Critic, Provocateur Ellen Stone Belic Presents: In Her Infinite Wisdom


Since her bestselling debut Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has been one of our most audacious cultural critics, probing sex and beauty in art, literature, and media. In her first book in seven years, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, Paglia takes on the visual arts. Acting as art historian and provocateur, Paglia threads together historical context with some of Western art’s most important works, focusing on such vastly disparate mediums as an Egyptian tomb, French rococo interiors, and performance art. In classic Paglia fashion, her conclusions—that the avant-garde tradition is dead and that director George Lucas is the world’s greatest living artist—astonish and challenge her audience.

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This program is generously underwritten by Ellen Stone Belic and features an artist, writer, or other creative authority reflecting on her extraordinary career.

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Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Associate Professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Her research examines US intellectual and cultural history, with a focus on the transatlantic flow of ideas and cultural movements. She is the author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas, and a number of essays for The Wilson Quarterly, Daedalus, and the Guardian blog. She is currently working on a book on the search for wisdom and wonder in 20th-century American life.

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