From a review of Camille Paglia's latest book, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to "Star Wars":
Paglia's fans will recognize Glittering Images as a companion volume to 2005's Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads 43 of the World's Best Poems. Both books seek to teach a general audience how to love the arts and to be intellectually and spiritually enlarged by them. "Modern life is a sea of images," she writes in the introduction to Glittering Images, deploring such distractions as television, video games, and smartphones. "We must relearn how to see. Amid so much jittery visual clutter, it is crucial to find focus, the basis of stability, identity, and life direction." We must, she says, "present the eye with opportunities for steady perception." Paglia is writing for students, who, she feels, have been cheated out of adequate exposure to art and art history.
The Dish recently featured her paean to George Lucas, "the greatest artist of our time". To submit a question for Camille, enter it into the field at the top of the Urtak poll (ignore the "YES or NO question" aspect and simply enter any open-ended question). We primed the poll with questions you can vote on right away – click "Yes" if you have a strong interest in seeing her answer the question or "No" if you don't particularly care. Thanks to everyone for participating.
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