Camille Paglia: Art and Spirituality

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  • Here is Camille Paglia's presentation to the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2012. She discusses how art contributes to human spirituality.

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  • @TMSreptiles
    @TMSreptiles 7 років тому +55

    She can never die. Let her be eternal pls :,(

  • @havock89
    @havock89 7 років тому +99

    I have very little in common with Camile Paglia, but I love this woman. Her mind her personality are an incredible gift to humanity.

    • @neige4221
      @neige4221 Рік тому +2

      I like to think she is the smarter version of me. 😊

  • @plekkchand
    @plekkchand 6 років тому +27

    She is an enormous asset to our society.

  • @Vikingvideos50
    @Vikingvideos50 7 років тому +47

    I love this woman. She makes you think about yourself. And she's so funny.

  • @aut1976
    @aut1976 7 років тому +45

    She is a joy to listen to.

  • @DanGoodman-n4b
    @DanGoodman-n4b 3 місяці тому +2

    What a fabulous mind. What a fabulous person. Hope I get to attend one or more of her lectures. It is refreshing to see a woman who is fearless & original.
    Ms. Paglia, what you say about the spirituality of the entire art experience. Is one of the central modern issues re: societal decay.
    She isn’t growing older she is growing as a human being and scholar.
    Good one, exposing the emperor’s complete lack
    of academic clothing.
    Rock on! I hope you find a good academic home, after the fiascos (plural) you have endured. , post the UArt zoo.
    I became a professional consultant but have always both created & studied arts & creativity.
    But enough of this. Just know that you have more followers and supporters scattered around the world.😅
    Much Love, Honor & Respect.

  • @theresewalters1696
    @theresewalters1696 9 місяців тому +3

    Former Art student here.
    I am excited about reading your book. Others of yours as well. Baby boomer on the younger end.

  • @Alex-kk8is
    @Alex-kk8is 4 роки тому +16

    Camille Paglia is an absolute force

  • @devingauthier2933
    @devingauthier2933 5 років тому +12

    Paglia is indescribable. Absolutely bristling with ideas all derived from her own free thought and observation, even if I don't agree with everything she says.

  • @changeindirection
    @changeindirection 6 років тому +7

    Her thoughts come so fast no human mouth can articulate them. Awesomeness

  • @barbarajohnson1442
    @barbarajohnson1442 7 років тому +32

    I wanna go to the movies with her!!!

  • @GabrielaHandalArt
    @GabrielaHandalArt 2 роки тому +8

    "coffee table art book syndrome" is freaking perfect

  • @maxmartin-merrells3723
    @maxmartin-merrells3723 4 роки тому +9

    Her rant on Hitchens! WOW!

  • @joejessup9775
    @joejessup9775 7 років тому +15

    "I always go on hiatus when I need to finish a book..." -Camille Paglia. George RR Martin can learn a lot from Camille Paglia

  • @terilandi6269
    @terilandi6269 6 років тому +6

    28:44 "My natural mode is AM radio" - love it, and what a revelation!

  • @vixapphire
    @vixapphire 7 років тому +9

    Her observations about gallery space/environments and "contemplation" are exactly correct.

  • @fromeveryting29
    @fromeveryting29 5 років тому +12

    I have my first day in university tomorrow. I'm very very afraid I've made a mistake.
    It's in the humanities, art history. My background is in the arts. The production of art. I wan't to master painting, technically, and I want to understand what drives people, and me, to produce art. I want to shamelessly be enthusiastically in love with past masterworks. I want to be inspired.
    But I'm afraid it might be an ideological reading of the arts. Or too removed from the actual practice of producing art. Too conceptual.
    I applied there because I thought it might be the best place to find people who still hold classical values like beauty and truth.
    Wish me luck.

    • @jonathankieranwriter
      @jonathankieranwriter 3 роки тому +3

      You have those well-wishes. Don’t let your mind be weighed down in chaotic thoughts about, “Is this too much?”, “Is that too little?”, “Is this even enough?” Learn well in terms of technique and then follow your inner instincts and irrepressible urge to create.

    • @charlierose5569
      @charlierose5569 2 роки тому +1

      Hi, Julian. It’s been two years since you wrote this comment. What’s your progress? All the best.

    • @lenwelch2195
      @lenwelch2195 Рік тому

      You’ll only grow no matter how much in percentages help produce art or where the inspiration for art comes from . It’s a reflection of societies response to what they find captivating and important with materials that were available during that time .

  • @phoenixoliviacopy2727
    @phoenixoliviacopy2727 Рік тому +2

    Absolute fire.

  • @lenwelch2195
    @lenwelch2195 Рік тому +1

    She understands stereotypes and the historical archetypes depicted in art which is a reflection of society as a whole during the period during the time the art was fabricated . Att can also form or cement archetypes . What’s great about her is that she knows the history of archetypes and what influences over time shape our reaction . The influence goes both ways - it influences society and society influences its expression ( art ) and its many forms that show the creative side of society.

  • @ariwl1
    @ariwl1 7 років тому +13

    I lost it laughing when she described NPR. I have tried to listen to NPR but I can't stay focused with their subdued speech as my mind just wanders.

  • @normbabbitt4325
    @normbabbitt4325 7 років тому +5

    So refreshing and inspiring for me! Thank you for posting this! I have been so interested in opening more to a capacity for appreciating art. This is very helpful for proceeding forward.

  • @jos8916
    @jos8916 4 місяці тому

    I just LOVE Paglia ! 💛

  • @AB-bt9eb
    @AB-bt9eb 6 років тому +4

    Love Camille!

  • @johnstark5275
    @johnstark5275 6 років тому +4

    She is fierce

  • @saintnarcissus9076
    @saintnarcissus9076 6 років тому +5

    2 0 1 2 !!!????? Where did she come from and who let her out?!? I want to see her make this speech TODAY! Tell me, WHO will let her do that? Every single thing she said is truth. SALVE REGINA!! x

  • @yugoxgc
    @yugoxgc 6 років тому +4

    "Thats a sign I have 5 min left"... barely past half of the vid.
    I love her xD

  • @Katharsis540
    @Katharsis540 3 роки тому

    So calm in contrast with her early days. Still got the fire.

  • @lucseacroft4880
    @lucseacroft4880 7 років тому +7

    Half way through she said she had 5 minutes left

    • @crisisactor420
      @crisisactor420 7 років тому +2

      lol it's part of her charm

    • @CopperNoir
      @CopperNoir 4 роки тому +1

      Paglia time is a dimension all its own.

  • @theodorearaujo971
    @theodorearaujo971 8 місяців тому

    Gotta take her class. Hitchens was in fact extremely educated with respect to religion. Spirituality? Maybe not so much. I am going there to get a Ph.D and just bought her art book.

  • @artyom108
    @artyom108 7 років тому +2

    I love you Camile, but the Maharishi was not a "false guru" at all... he was quite legit, and there were no scandals around him that I know of. He's the originator of TM (Transcendental Meditation).

  • @petlover345
    @petlover345 7 років тому +2

    What book is she talking about that she wrote?

  • @mythnow
    @mythnow 6 років тому

    I agree with many things she said but wine does not equate lsd. Just about every smart well-rounded person ought to try it once.

  • @joaopaulotargaryen7368
    @joaopaulotargaryen7368 6 років тому

    33:25 about Met Gala 2018

  • @Kombo-Chapfika
    @Kombo-Chapfika 6 років тому

    She could have been a stand-up comedian.

  • @frankieglide
    @frankieglide 7 років тому +5

    what is this thin gruel? classic staement

  • @fuferito
    @fuferito 4 місяці тому

    08:45
    "I'm a great defender of pornography and prostitution..."
    *[applause]*
    "Oh, thank you. I'm not sure if that's coming from the prostitutes or the pornopraphers."

  • @elijahplummer3655
    @elijahplummer3655 3 місяці тому

    I disagree with her and Jordan Peterson massively, but i see why they took a liking to each other

  • @Sas1256x
    @Sas1256x Рік тому

    23:00

  • @bunnycatch3r
    @bunnycatch3r Рік тому +1

    Hitchens sneers at religion the same way Paglia sneers at feminism. Physician, heal thy self.

    • @Straglerspodcast
      @Straglerspodcast 8 місяців тому

      well look one of those contains a remarkable canon of centuries of incredibly interesting art and literature, and the other one... well, lets just say it's not quite on that level? lmao

  • @AndrewCotton-d5u
    @AndrewCotton-d5u Місяць тому

    An American original

  • @strangebee
    @strangebee 7 років тому

    Has she ever spoken about Marina Abramovic or Terrance McKenna?

  • @ricric6548
    @ricric6548 6 років тому

    what was the name she referred when talking about "Do It Yourself" method? John Du(...)? Appreciate it.

  • @gusgus1816
    @gusgus1816 2 роки тому +1

    Really tho? Super articulate person, but to be a self professed atheist - she can't say enough about her perspective- and then the name of her book has "spirituality" and "art" in the title? What a contradiction. As if man and woman alone created art. Wow, miss, what a miss. And I agree, the religions are total shields from the core of truth, but to believe in ART aaand in SPIRIT and then say - we have no creator, the universe is a grand cosmic accident or a fluke. Thats pure ignorance of the self. Intellect not intelligence.

    • @hakmagui9842
      @hakmagui9842 Рік тому +1

      Why do we need think that we were physically created by some anthropomorphic entity to believe in the spiritual power of art? Spirituality just involves a form of knowledge or perception not limited to sense data. Art provides this without the arbitrary positing of a creator figure, since we ultimately become the creators when we participate in it, making the universe into our likeness and seeing ourselves in it despite its brute materiality.

    • @gusgus1816
      @gusgus1816 Рік тому +1

      @@hakmagui9842 youre misreading what Im saying, im not a religious fool. If u think youre going to teach me about what spiritually is then please think again. Saying that u dont believe in a Source of all that is and all that isnt, but that you're "spiritual" - just makes u sound inexperienced, arrogant or confused. Dont get too full of your creative artistic ability, u did not invent it, it was given to u, not by some "anthropomorphic being" either. Show some respect for what you do not understand instead of arrogance and ignorance.

    • @Straglerspodcast
      @Straglerspodcast 8 місяців тому

      @@hakmagui9842you say we remake the universe in our image, but really its the other way around. we are the inheritors of the creative energy of the universe. It has created us in its image, as creative entities. Material "brute" as you call it, reality started out as mere scattered space debris, and created endlessly from the basic elements such complexity that we can't comprehend its end. So you've got it backwards, and so anthropocentric in your logic.
      There's no need for you to to believe in god i you don't want to, but you could learn a thing or two from theology and religious thought if that's the conclusion you've come to about creativity.

  • @connordavey4422
    @connordavey4422 2 роки тому +1

    loves a scandal doesnt she?

  • @jengleheimerschmitt7941
    @jengleheimerschmitt7941 6 років тому +2

    Paglia has a little Mr. Garrison in her, MmmKaay?

  • @mehowkielan1984
    @mehowkielan1984 Рік тому

    Very smart person, but her voice is unbearable

  • @MattBaker789
    @MattBaker789 7 років тому +4

    What kind of an atheism is that? LOL

    • @thesoundsofonehandclapping
      @thesoundsofonehandclapping 6 років тому

      I call it Good Atheism; atheism that isn't void of spirituality. There is no need to put faith in a particular God or what not, for they are merely relative representations of a greater whole. You can perfectly fine ''practice'' spirituality without picking up religion whatsoever. No matter if you go to church, do Buddhist meditation, or take LSD, or shift your consciousness in other ways.

  • @rajkomilosevichguera4547
    @rajkomilosevichguera4547 7 років тому +4

    Incredibly rewarding, but christ it's hard to listen to her. I have a feel of herd of attacked antilopes galloping through my brain after her...
    (and yes - she's very biased by her nature (most Italians are...) she has too many things against people who are high quality, but simply different from her (Hitchens, BBC & so forth), so that's a big hole in all her statements: she has attitude & hates when others have theirs - despite them being reasonable... bad thing...).
    I'll most probably just buy & read the book - I can't go on with this sub-gun 'charm' any more...

    • @Roy__Batty
      @Roy__Batty 7 років тому +4

      Rajko Milosevich Guera shut up

    • @chrisprice3099
      @chrisprice3099 7 років тому

      Rajko Milosevich Guera. Please give us more. Roy Batty shut up.

    • @TheBetabox
      @TheBetabox 7 років тому +1

      Rajko Milosevich Guera Hitchens was not "reasonable".

    • @chrisprice3099
      @chrisprice3099 7 років тому

      Rajko: You STATE that Hitchens is not reasonable, but you don't give any REASONS, do you? Who is not "reasonable"?

    • @rajkomilosevichguera4547
      @rajkomilosevichguera4547 7 років тому +1

      (I am "Rajko" he is "TheBetabox"), so:
      Thanks for the kind words above, Chris (let the trolls troll & dumbs dumb):
      well, similar to Jordan Peterson, Pragilia is superbly honest, but both of them treat majority of questions almost exclusively based on human psychology. Like all the answers are in fact just question of psychology (or neuropsychology) - as if the truth depends only of how stable we are to accept it (this does matter, but not as an answer, but as important observance of HOW we apply truths. It still is NOT truths themselves). They both (I’ll say again - being honest and admirable people) rarely touch questions empirically. What IS. Not what it could mean, what it meant, what danger it brings. Just what IS. And HOW we get to it (not how we communicate on it).
      And specially in that sense, Hichens (Sam Harris? Peter Atkins?) although he can appear to Praglia’s CHARACTER as not-reasonable, drunkard, or with bad (stiff?) attitude - or whatever similar - it is really obvious that these people are very, very reasonable (this is why Peterson is most AFRAID of Harris, (he talks with Sam like scared antelope) (Praglia) - I see many people missing this: as sooner or later, Harris will prove to be very reasonable (and therefore, he’ll offer more direct path to eventual truths. Not CONSEQUENCES of this/that - just attempt to elaborate what he knows about the empirical truth of it);
      Ts the same with Hitchens/Praglia relation - she doesn’t like HIM - again - error of thinking psychology is the truth (reason) itself. And as I said prior - as many, many Italians I’ve met - she’s biased by her nature (character) - so if you’re not ‘charmed’ - what would she propose? Same as her attitude to Hichens? Guy who is on her side of the argument, gave life's length for it?
      Not good (fair). Really not.
      Other than that - she is incredibly important person & her work is life saver in times we're in, but to put it blantly: she has the almost exact “rude” posture as she said Hitchens does - just other side of the spectrum. And she is missing to see this...
      Again - just pitty, tsa bad (blind?) spot.
      Off & away. Thnx. Many.

  • @davidhamilton2726
    @davidhamilton2726 7 років тому +1

    Can't this gibbering loon make a serious point? I waited to hear about art and spirituality.

    • @davidhamilton2726
      @davidhamilton2726 7 років тому

      Make an intelligent point insults are the first sign of incompetence.

    • @ghjhgjdfhhjfghefhjfg3327
      @ghjhgjdfhhjfghefhjfg3327 4 роки тому +3

      She made many excellent points in this lecture.

    • @blum3141592
      @blum3141592 2 роки тому +1

      Read What is Art by Tolstoy

    • @blum3141592
      @blum3141592 2 роки тому

      Read The Truth and Beauty by Klavan

    • @lenwelch2195
      @lenwelch2195 Рік тому

      So the form must be pleasing before you recognize the points she is making . Oh boy !