Answering these questions enables you to relate material from the text to your own personal experiences.
In the late nineteenth century, Africa, Japan, and Polynesia were considered exotic lands. What places or things are considered “exotic” today? Does today’s view of the exotic influence the arts? How so?
While van Gogh sold fewer than half a dozen paintings in his lifetime, he is now considered an extremely popular “cultural hero.” Why? What does that say about our own time and his?
In the poem “Afternoon of a Faun”, images are intimately linked to the world of the senses. Find three other works of art or music in this chapter of which the same might be said.
How would Pico della Mirandola or Machiavelli respond to Nietzsche?
