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Article: Michelangelo; Considering an Old Master in a new way.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2005
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Byline: Eric Gibson, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Just when you think the discipline of art history is beyond recovery - as the latest race-sex-gender "deconstruction" of an artist lands with a dispiriting thud on one's desk - comes James Hall's "Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body," a breath of fresh intellectual air if there ever was one.
This is a searching and in places profoundly revealing inquiry into the meaning of Michelangelo's art, which the author approaches synoptically - in terms of a number of themes or issues - rather than one more chronological survey. Where postmodern art historians fit the work of art to their ...