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Michelangelo - And the Reinvention of the Human Body (Paperback)
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Michelangelo - And the Reinvention of the Human Body (Paperback)
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Price R283
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Michelangelo's art is exhilarating, but also bewildering. What is
the source of his incomparable power? In this bold and absorbing
study, the art critic James Hall explores the body-language of
Michelangelo's figures, and his preoccupation with the male nude.
He answers many of the major puzzles - his stern Madonnas and their
lack of maternal feeling; his concern with colossal scale and size;
his passion for anatomical dissection; the meaning of the drawings
made for his young lover Tommaso da Cavalieri. By asking basic
questions about Michelangelo and his times, Hall sheds dramatic new
light on many of his most familiar works, including the statue of
David, the narratives of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and his
haunting late images of the dead Christ. This book re-assesses the
popular idea of Michelangelo as an artist-superman possessed of
titanic mental and physical powers, and the long-held view of him
as brilliant but unbalanced, obsessed with the male nude. Hall sees
him as the first artist to put the unadorned human body centre
stage, giving him a profound relevance to our own time, in which
visual artists and writers are so fixated on 'the body'. If we
really want to understand our own culture, he argues, we need to
understand Michelangelo. This compelling new study offers us a way
to do so.
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