{"id":26816,"title":"Camille Paglia, \"Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson\"","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1990-01-01","material":"paper, ink","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Culture Wars Gender","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eCamille Paglia, \u003cem\u003eSexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson\u003c/em\u003e, 1990\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nPublished by Yale University Press\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFirst edition\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":24,"permalink":"sexual-personae-art-and-decadence-from-nefertiti-to-emily-dickinson","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/259/medium_500/Gender2.jpg?1603101618","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/063/259/large/Gender2.jpg?1603101618","poster_credits":"Published by Yale University Press","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamille Paglia is an American cultural critic known for her polemical ideas on feminism and sexuality. A controversial figure \u0026ndash; identifying herself as transgender \u0026ndash; but rejecting contemporary gender studies, she is often described as an \u0026ldquo;antifeminist-feminist\u0026rdquo;. Her most famous and lengthy publication \u003cem\u003eSexual Personae\u003c/em\u003e seeks to demonstrate \u0026quot;the unity and continuity of Western culture\u0026quot; through the study of sexual personae from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Deriving her ideas from the theories of various writers including the Marquis de Sade, Oswald Spengler, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, as well as taking the Nietzschean idea of dichotomy between Dionysian and Apollonian forces in cultural activity, Paglia builds her theory of Western culture upon sexual stereotypes, fixed sexual archetypes and a biological basis of sex. According to Paglia, culture and civilisation was created by men to oppose and contain the chaotic (or \u0026lsquo;chthonic\u0026rsquo; to use Paglia\u0026rsquo;s term) and self-destructive nature of women. The aggressive nature of male sexuality is seen as a driving force in culture \u0026ndash; Paglia argues that \u0026quot;amorality, aggression, sadism, voyeurism, and pornography in great art have been ignored or glossed over by most academic critics\u0026quot;. Paglia\u0026rsquo;s comparisons of select examples of art and literature from high and low cultures, and controversial enthusiasm for pornography and male paedophilia are, as argued by some critics, merely gimmicks, which mask her glorification of male dominance and the unquestionable conservative trajectory of Western culture.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamille Paglia is een Amerikaanse cultuurcriticus die bekend staat om haar polemische idee\u0026euml;n over feminisme en seksualiteit. Ze is een controversi\u0026euml;le figuur \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp; vaak omschreven als \u0026#39;antifeministisch-feministe\u0026#39; \u0026ndash; die zichzelf identificeert als transgender maar die hedendaagse genderstudies verwerpt. Haar beroemdste en omvangrijkste publicatie\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSexual Personae\u003c/em\u003e, probeert \u0026#39;de eenheid en continu\u0026iuml;teit van de westerse cultuur\u0026#39; te demonstreren aan de hand van de studie van de \u0026#39;seksuele personae\u0026#39; van Nefertiti tot Emily Dickinson. Paglia haalt haar idee\u0026euml;n uit de theorie\u0026euml;n van allerlei auteurs, waaronder Markies de Sade, Oswald Spengler, Sigmund Freud en Carl Jung, alsook het nietzscheaanse idee van de dichotomie tussen dionysische en apollinische krachten in de cultuur. Haar theorie van de westerse cultuur baseert ze op seksuele stereotypen, onveranderlijke seksuele archetypen en het idee van een biologische basis voor seks. Volgens Paglia zijn cultuur en beschaving gecre\u0026euml;erd door mannen om de chaotische (of \u0026lsquo;chtonische\u0026#39;, om Paglias\u0026#39; term te gebruiken) en zelfvernietigende aard van vrouwen te bestrijden en te beheersen. De agressieve aard van mannelijke seksualiteit wordt gezien als een drijvende kracht in de cultuur. Paglia stelt dat \u0026ldquo;amoraliteit, agressie, sadisme, voyeurisme en pornografie in de grote kunst door de meeste academische critici werden genegeerd of verdoezeld.\u0026rdquo; Sommige critici betogen dat Paglias\u0026#39; vergelijkingen tussen selecte voorbeelden uit de kunst en de literatuur uit hoge en lage cultuur, en haar (controversieel) enthousiasme voor pornografie en mannelijke pedofilie slechts gimmicks zijn. Volgens hen maskeren ze haar verheerlijking van de mannelijke dominantie en van het onbetwistbare conservatieve traject dat de westerse cultuur heeft afgelegd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCamille Paglia est une critique culturelle originaire des \u0026Eacute;tats-Unis, connue pour ses id\u0026eacute;es pol\u0026eacute;miques \u0026agrave; propos du f\u0026eacute;minisme et de la sexualit\u0026eacute;. Elle est une figure controvers\u0026eacute;e, souvent d\u0026eacute;crite comme \u0026laquo; antif\u0026eacute;ministe \u0026raquo;, qui s\u0026rsquo;identifie comme transgenre, mais rejette les \u0026eacute;tudes contemporaines sur la question du genre. Sa publication la plus c\u0026eacute;l\u0026egrave;bre et la plus compl\u0026egrave;te, \u003cem\u003eSexual Personae\u003c/em\u003e, tente de d\u0026eacute;montrer \u0026laquo; l\u0026rsquo;unit\u0026eacute; et la continuit\u0026eacute; de la culture occidentale \u0026raquo; \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;aide de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;tude des \u0026laquo; personnes sexuelles \u0026raquo;, de N\u0026eacute;fertiti \u0026agrave; Emily Dickinson. Certains et certaines critiques soutiennent que les comparaisons faites par Paglia entre des exemples murement choisis d\u0026rsquo;art et de litt\u0026eacute;rature de haute et basse culture, et son admiration (source de pol\u0026eacute;miques) pour la pornographie et pour la p\u0026eacute;dophilie masculine ne sont que des stratag\u0026egrave;mes, destin\u0026eacute;s \u0026agrave; masquer sa glorification de la domination masculine et de la voie conservatrice indiscutablement emprunt\u0026eacute;e par la culture occidentale.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}