Member Gallery Book Club: GLITTERING IMAGES: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia

Join fellow Alliance members in the Main Gallery to explore literature – both fiction and non-fiction – revolving around art, artists, art history, and art appreciation.

Participate in thoughtful group discussions and expand your appreciation and knowledge of the world of art!

Modern life is a sea of images. With so much visual data bombarding usfrom personal devices to mass mediaour brains must rapidly adapt to make sense of it all. Here to guide us is America’s premier intellectual provocateur, Camille Paglia.

In these pages, Paglia returns to the subject that made her famous, situating our current visual environment within the epic scope of all of art history. With trademark audacity, Paglia tours through more than two dozen seminal paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art works that have transformed our world. Combining close analysis with historical context, she trains our eye to each imagefrom an Egyptian tomb to Jackson Pollock’s abstract Green Silver to Rene Cox’s daring performance piece Chillin’ with Liberty. And in her stunning conclusion, she declares the avant-garde tradition dead and film director George Lucas the world’s greatest living artist. Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images will profoundly change the way we see.

The Member Gallery Book Club meets from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month. Club members must purchase their own copy of each book, but an active Alliance membership is all that’s required. To become a member, click here.