camille paglia

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
$16.95
I admire so much about Paglia. I often laugh-out-loud when reading her work. She would be the first to say that this (laughing, play, fun) is important.

Superficially Paglia sets herself against language-trapped liberals and tradition bound conservatives. As she said, she's an atheist who respects tradition, a liberal who hates political correctness.

The main essay of this book is "No Law in the Arena" and it is here that Paglia's fundamental views can be inferred.

I've always imagined she would have a great time having playful conversation's with Nietzsche. At root, Paglia is a Nietzschean. Her view is that the will-to-power (life, really [[she places a huge emphasis on biology]]) defies rational limits and controls. However, reason -- and the civilization that results from it -- can importantly influence the irrational, mindless biological forces. It does this by, more-or-less, sublimating those forces. Enter beauty, justice etc etc.

Bottom line: I don't agree with her fundamental's but Paglia is a fun thinker. I've read this book several times just for the pleasure of her wit! Buy this!

Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems
$14.95
The sample shows no poem. I cannot tell at what font size the verse is properly shown.

Camille Paglia's Feminist Raconteur Magnet
$4.00
This magnet features a right handsome image of Dr Camille Paglia, professor, columnist, author of Sexual Personnae and all round bad chick

Tom of Finland XXL
$200.00
Tuoko Laaksonen (1920 - 1991) may have enjoyed worldwide fame as Tom of Finland during his lifetime, his fame due largely to an extensive following of those who praised his courage to paint and draw what he wanted to paint and draw rather than keeping his talent for figurative work in the dark corners of only certain bookstores. Now, thanks in large part to this very fine tome edited by Dian Hanson, the general public can appreciate the fact that not only did he appeal to a specific audience; he can now be seen as an exceptionally gifted draughtsman and artist.

Laaksonen/Tom of Finland restricted his output to figurative works that highlighted massively macho males in all manner of situations. While his work is erotically charged it always retains a brilliant sense of humor and parody: he celebrated his audience by saying it is not only OK to enjoy these works, it is also OK to see the humor in the distortion of fantasies. Many of these works in this exhaustive volume are well known, having been reproduced many times in literature and in galleries, but for the connoisseur there are unpublished works here, many of which show a more tender side to the artist. Hanson has the good idea of presenting these works of art in chronological order - another way of examining public acceptance of the artist's works - and the chapters covering sixty years of his output are arranged by decades, the Forties through the Eighties. Another fortunate aspect of this massive book is the decision to include essays and commentaries by such important writers as Edward Lucie-Smith, Armistead Maupin, John Waters, Todd Oldham and Camille Paglia.

This is a long awaited volume that places an underground artist in the same echelon with other contemporary figurative painters. It is a beautifully produced, edited, written and illustrated homage to an artist who is now recognized for his talent not only as an artist, but also as a spokesman for human rights! Grady Harp, November 09