Hall reads and thinks like a scholar but it helps that he writes with the confidence of a hack. "Michelangelo is the poet laureate of male nipples," he writes. "David's nipples are erect, and stand to electro-charged attention."
Yes, well...whatever. Better get the library ticket out then.
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body, James Hall, Chatto and Windus 25 pounds.
Irish Art
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The Art Of The Nipple
"When James Hall, the art historian, tackles Michelangelo, he is tackling a figure as gigantic and paradoxical as the artist's own David. Michelangelo's strength was one that many of his fellow artists and contemporaries would have considered a weakness - his sustained interest in the lone figure under stress, in crisis or transition.
His art was made for an age that was emphatically post-heroic, recognising bitterly and protesting that the age of chivalry was over. It was technically brilliant, erotically charged and inherently unstable.
Hall reads and thinks like a scholar but it helps that he writes with the confidence of a hack. "Michelangelo is the poet laureate of male nipples," he writes. "David's nipples are erect, and stand to electro-charged attention."
Yes, well...whatever. Better get the library ticket out then.
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body, James Hall, Chatto and Windus 25 pounds.
Irish Art
Hall reads and thinks like a scholar but it helps that he writes with the confidence of a hack. "Michelangelo is the poet laureate of male nipples," he writes. "David's nipples are erect, and stand to electro-charged attention."
Yes, well...whatever. Better get the library ticket out then.
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body, James Hall, Chatto and Windus 25 pounds.
Irish Art
