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

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  • ABOUT Camille Paglia

    Camille Paglia is a scholar, culture critic, and professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has taught since 1984. She is the best selling author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps: New Essays. Paglia is also a co-founding contributor and columnist at Salon.com. Her latest book, Glittering Images: A Journey through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, will be published in October 2012. Profile
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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.

Photo by Michael Lionstar

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