An Analysis of the Book, Sacred Monsters, Sacred Masters by John Richardson (1027 words, 2 pages)
Privates on paradeSacred Monsters, Sacred MastersJohn RichardsonCape 20, pp378It was Jean Cocteau who first defined celebrities as sacred monsters. Despite its irony, the phrase was reverential the playboys, harlots, tycoons, dope fiends and slumming artists whose misbehaviour Cocteau chronicled were, in his view, our contemporary version of the Olympian deities ...
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