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-Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars [Hardcover] 
-[[Camille Paglia]] (Author) 
-:In her groundbreaking ''[[Sexual Personae]]'', Camille Paglia turned her incisive eye on beauty and decadence in literature, art, and popular culture. Now, America's premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, tackling the great themes of Western art in an enthralling tour through more than two dozen seminal images, some famous and others obscure or unknown. With energy, erudition, and wit, Paglia leads us chronologically through the paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art that have defined and transformed our visual world. She combines close analysis with background that situates each artist and image within its historical context—from an Egyptian tomb to [[Titian]]'s "[[Venus with a Mirror]];" from an elegant French Rococo interior to Jackson Pollock's abstract "[[Green Silver]];" from [[Renee Cox]]'s daring performance piece "[[Chillin' with Liberty]]" to [[Eleanor Antin]]'s amusing conceptual art project "[[100 Boots]]." In a stunning ending, Paglia declares that the avant-garde tradition is dead and that director George Lucas, creator of Star Wars, is the world's greatest living artist. Brilliantly concise and lucidly designed for general readers and students, this continually surprising book deciphers the messages of the cultural code over the past 3000 years, and once again confirms Camille Paglia's inimitable talent for overturning the received wisdom of her predecessors. Beautifully written, passionately argued, and filled with Paglia's trademark audacity, Glittering Images is destined to change the way we think about our visual environment in this high-tech age.+'''''Venus with a Mirror'''''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Titian_Venus_Mirror_%28furs%29.jpg] (About 1555) is a painting by [[Titian]], now in the [[National Gallery of Art]] in [[Washington, DC]].
-<hr>+The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the [[Venus de' Medici]] in Florence or the [[Capitoline Venus]] in Rome, which Titian may have seen when he wrote that was "learning from the marvelous ancient stones." The painting is said to celebrate the ideal beauty of the female form, or to be a critique of vanity, or perhaps both. It was copied by several later artists, including [[Peter Paul Rubens]] and [[Anthony Van Dyck]].
-I just finished viewing all six parts of the excellent [[docufilm]] ''[[Pornography - The Secret History of Civilisation]]''. All six episodes have been on Youtube[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ7aVneGeqo] since last April. Hurry before they are gone!+
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-The documentary is from the same people who brought you ''[[Inside Deep Throat]]'' and especially the first three parts feature rock solid research. And in part 4, there is an great bit on [[Ugly George]] and gonzo pornography.+
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-Above is a screenshot of an Italian [[book of hours]] in the [[The Morgan Library & Museum]] featuring [[Jesus]] with seemingly erect penis. Rest assured, what at first sight seems an erection, is in reality the knife used for the [[circumcision of Jesus]]. +
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-RIP [[Ray Bradbury]], 91, American science fiction and fantasy author of ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]''.+
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-Illustration: screenshot from the [[Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film) |film adaptation]]. One of the 'firemen' (in reality [[book burner]]s) is holding a copy of ''[[Don Quixote]]''. It must be burned, the fate for all books in that story.+
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-[[Dref]]: op een dag wilde hij zijn computer aanzetten en het lukte hem gewoon niet meer, het zweet brak hem uit. Hij heeft toen al zijn klanten op gebeld met de melding dat het gedaan was. Hij had op zich een mooi leven.+
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-Dan is hij meubeltjes beginnen restaureren en hij had een winkeltje.+
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-Toen kwam de crisis, hij verkocht zijn huis en toen hij uitrekende hoeveel geld hij daarmee verdient had is hij meer huizen beginnen kopen.+
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-Altijd met een bestemmingswijziging van bijvoorbeeld industrieel pand naar woningspand, op de dienst Stedebouw kenden ze hem al.+
 +The work is featured in ''[[Venus in Furs]]''.
 +==See also==
 +*[[Naked Young Woman in Front of the Mirror]], by [[Giovanni Bellini]]. (1515). Titian had worked as a pupil in the studio of Bellini, and adopted Bellini's rich and sensuous colors.
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Venus with a Mirror[1] (About 1555) is a painting by Titian, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

The pose of the Venus resembles the classical statues of the Venus de' Medici in Florence or the Capitoline Venus in Rome, which Titian may have seen when he wrote that was "learning from the marvelous ancient stones." The painting is said to celebrate the ideal beauty of the female form, or to be a critique of vanity, or perhaps both. It was copied by several later artists, including Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck.

The work is featured in Venus in Furs.

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