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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans)

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Camille Paglia

Art, Hero, Avant Garde

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Camille Paglia

Art, School, Practice

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Paglia

Art, Nature, Imagination

Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, p.39, Yale University Press

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

Camille Paglia

Art, Lasts, Renaissance

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.

Camille Paglia

Art, Eras, Materialism

Camille Paglia (2007). “Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems”, p.17, Vintage

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself is denied. Greatness is not a white male trick. Every important world civilization has defined its artistic tradition in elitist terms of distinction and excellence.

Camille Paglia

Art, Greatness, Civilization

Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.115, Vintage

Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art. Every pictorial framing is a ritual limitation, a barred precinct.

Camille Paglia

Art, Males, Western Culture

Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Camille Paglia

Art, America, Mind

Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.11, Vintage

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Camille Paglia

Art, Ordinary, Art Is

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

Camille Paglia

Art, Mind, Males

Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage