Under the Sign of Saturn
- ISBN-10
- 0374280762
- ISBN-13
- 9780374280765
- Series
- Under the Sign of Saturn
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 203
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980-01-01
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Author
- Susan Sontag
Description
Sontag's most important critical writings of the past decade are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others
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