Camille Paglia still my favorite feminist! Amid the controversies over sacrilege, the art world made a terrible strategic error in elevating partisan loyalties over the welfare of American art. In automatically rushing to the defense of third-rate works like Andres Serranos Piss Christ (1987) and Chris Ofilis The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), it allowed itself to be defined in the public eye as an arrogant, insular fraternity with frivolous tastes and debased standards. There have been great works of sacrilegious art: my favorite is Salvador Dalís parody of the Annunciation, Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity (1954), where a bored Mary, clad only in seamed nylons and loafers, leans over a balcony while casually exposing her bare buttocks to a descending flock of flat, phallic tubers, surreally suggesting angels horns, holy doves, jostling sperm, and missile nose cones. —from the introduction to GLITTERING IMAGES: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars Salvador Dalís Young Virgin Auto-Sodomized by the Horns of Her Own Chastity didnt get a dedicated chapter in GLITTERING IMAGES, but over the next few weeks well be looking at the major works of art, spanning from Ancient Egypt to Star Wars, that did.
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