Art, sexuality, feminism and popular culture collide throughout Camille Paglia’s deliberately contrarian criticism. Sexual Personae is her largest and most scholarly work, moving through Western art and literature from antiquity to modernism while connecting artistic form with sex, power and pagan imagery. Sex, Art, and American Culture collects shorter essays and interviews on subjects ranging from Madonna to universities, while Free Women, Free Men gathers writing on feminism and sexual politics. Provocations brings together later pieces across art, politics and contemporary culture. Paglia’s prose is forceful, polemical and packed with references, making her books closer to argumentative criticism than neutral surveys. Paglia belongs across cultural studies, art criticism, feminism debates and intellectual history, particularly where readers want polemic rather than a consensus introduction. Read more Less
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