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Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body

de James Hall

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A brilliant critical analysis and explanation of Michelangelo's obsession with the human body. 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.… (més)
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I knew I was in trouble already when in the introduction Hall claims that for Michelangelo "The male figure... was always in some sense a surrogate for the ultimate human being, the dying and dead figure of Christ." That "always" was too categorical for my taste, but I forged ahead. But when I got to his preposterous interpretation of the Doni Tondo, in which Hall claims the Virgin Mary is a stand-in for St. Christopher because she is looking at the Christ child over her shoulder, and then goes on to claim that the mysterious male figures in the background are "sinners waiting for purification in, and passage across it," referring to the river that St. Christopher crosses, but which is not in the Tondo, and which are not even attributes of St. Christopher, I simply gave up.

For a better academic treatment of Michelangelo I highly recommend Marcia Hall's (no relation, i assume) "Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment." ( )
  giovannigf | Oct 2, 2012 |
This book is far more than just a survey of the superlative male torso in Michaelangelo's art: it is a thorough examination of the moral and historical background which makes it plausible to see these extraordinary works as an expression also of a deeply Augustinian sense of the flawedness of human flesh, particularly at its most majestic. James Hall shows how all of Michelangelo's work is about engagement with crisis: 'His art specialises in the grandly catastrophic' in which we are all reflected as victims who collude in our own catastrophe. James Hall compares this with the kind of focuses seen most obviously in our own time in the work of Francis Bacon. This is all extremely interesting - and far more interesting than some of the homosexual subtext which could so easily have predominated in a study of this kind - which is not to say that this book evades an interpretation of the Sistine Chapel ceiling, for example, as a deliberate articulation of a 'paradise' prior to that of Genesis which is marked by homosociality, deliberately subverting Catholic doctrine and morals. The book concludes by asking why, in spite of the way in which Michelangelo's work makes almost everything else look 'small and tame and worldly', his most meaningful depictions of the human body are both solitary, strained, and in pain: paradise of any kind eludes him in the end. Whether this presupposition of guilt and shame (which is itself deeply Augustinian) is, in fact, persuasive is something which some of us may wish to doubt. ( )
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A brilliant critical analysis and explanation of Michelangelo's obsession with the human body. 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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