“Hellenistic art gradually merged the faces and genders of brother and sister. The Greek Artemis is a sexual persona, a projected personality. The narrowest of the major Olympians, she is a condensation of their Apollonian character.”
— SP, Ch.3 #artanddecadence #Apollo #dionysus
— SP, Ch.3 #artanddecadence #Apollo #dionysus
“Dread is the proper response to beings of hieratic purity. Major western painters have been inhospitable to the Artemis idea.”
— SP, Ch. 3
— SP, Ch. 3
“Artemis is overshadowed by Clark’s Vegetable Aphrodite, woman as opulent organic form. Fruitfulness is the metaphor of times of famine, physical or spiritual.”
— SP, Ch. 3
— SP, Ch. 3
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