A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
The aim of this book is to re-evaluate the status and usage of the photographic image in historical Surrealism, seeking to locate the use of photography by Surrealists within the cultural discourses of that historical moment.
This clear and challenging re-evaluation of the status and usage of photographic images in historical surrealism puts surrealism's fundamental issues back into the framework of its historical purpose and function. David Bate asks what a surrealist photograph actually is. He disc…
Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking collects for the first time the author's nonfiction writings on sex and gender. Chronicling the past four decades, these fourteen essays and three interviews offer an introduction to Vidal's sexual politics from the postwar to the postmodern era.
& Ldquo; Voluptuous Panic is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous & mdash;not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull. & rdquo; & mdash;Gary Meyer, Clean Sheets When Voluptuous Pani…
This seductive sourcebook of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period "Babylon on the Spree" has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip club goers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musician…