Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body

Name: Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
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ISBN: 9780374208837

ISBN-10: 0374208832

ISBN-13: 9780374208837

Edition: 2005

Authors: James Hall

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A brilliant new comprehensive critical analysis of Michelangelo's art, focusing on his depiction of the human body. Michelangelo's art is exhilarating, but also bewildering: What is the source of its power? In this imaginative and detailed study, the art critic James Hall explores some of the major puzzles of Michelangelo's work-his stern Madonnas and their lack of maternal responsiveness; his concern with colossal scale and size; the way that anatomical dissections affected his attitude toward the human body; and the placing of solitary, heroic figures against backgrounds of chaotic, troubling crowds. Hall arrives at a more precise, nuanced appreciation of the body language of…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Mothers	p. 1
Giants	p. 37
Bodies	p. 63
Crowds	p. 103
Benefactions	p. 139
Movements	p. 167
Humiliations	p. 202
Legacies	p. 224
A Note on Literary Sources	p. 241
Bibliography and Abbreviations	p. 243
Notes	p. 263
Chronology	p. 293
Index	p. 296
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