Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding
us--from personal devices to mass media--our brains must rapidly adapt
to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is America's premier
intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia.
In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous,
situating our current visual environment within the epic scope of all of
art history. With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more than two
dozen seminal paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance
pieces, and digital art works that have transformed our world. Combining
close analysis with historical context, she trains our eye to each
image--from an Egyptian tomb to Jackson Pollock's abstract Green
Silver to Renée Cox's daring performance piece Chillin' with Liberty.
And in her stunning conclusion, she declares the avant-garde tradition
dead and film director George Lucas the world's greatest living artist.
Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images will
profoundly change the way we see.