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<p> <script src="https://d39v39m55yawr.cloudfront.net/assets/clr.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <a href="https://urtak.com/clr/jy47rjswh8uvusxypsjum3vmwa7ralq4">Ask Camille Anything</a></p>
<p>From a <a href="http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Glittering-Images/ba-p/9177" target="_self">review</a> of Camille Paglia&#39;s latest book, <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/glittering-images-camille-paglia/1110778729?ean=9780375424601" target="_blank"><em>Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to &quot;Star Wars&quot;</em></a>:</p>
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<p>Paglia&#39;s fans will recognize <em>Glittering Images</em> as a companion volume to 2005&#39;s <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/break-blow-burn-camille-paglia/1100618101?ean=9780375725395" target="_blank"><em>Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads 43 of the World&#39;s Best Poems</em></a>.  Both books seek to teach a general audience how to love the arts and to  be intellectually and spiritually enlarged by them. &quot;Modern life is a  sea of images,&quot; she writes in the introduction to <em>Glittering Images,</em>  deploring such distractions as television, video games, and  smartphones. &quot;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.&quot; We must, she says, &quot;present the eye with  opportunities for steady perception.&quot; Paglia is writing for students, who, she feels, have been cheated out of adequate exposure to art and art history.</p>
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<p>The Dish recently <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/who-is-the-greatest-artist-of-all-time.html" target="_self">featured</a> her paean to George Lucas, &quot;the greatest artist of our time&quot;. To submit a question for Camille, enter it into the field at  the  top of  the Urtak poll (ignore the &quot;YES or NO question&quot; aspect and   simply enter  any open-ended question). We primed the  poll with   questions you can  vote on right away &#8211; click &quot;Yes&quot; if you have a strong  interest in seeing her  answer the question or &quot;No&quot; if you don&#39;t    particularly care. Thanks to everyone for participating. </p>
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