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Michelangelo's Painting

Selected Essays

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures elucidates many of Michelangelo’s paintings, from frescoes in the Sistine Chapel to the Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St. Peter, the artist’s lesser-known works in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel; also included is a study of the relationship of the Doni Madonna to Leonardo. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking. Almost everything he wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures, as well as their gestures and interrelations, conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. Michelangelo’s Painting is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Michelangelo's Sculpture

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

604 kr

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His works, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo's work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist's highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo's most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking. Almost everything Steinberg wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but here put to the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo's rendering of figures as well as their gestures and interrelations conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers--or, as Steinberg put it, in Michelangelo's art, "anatomy becomes theology." Michelangelo's Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg's selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz. The volume also includes a book review debunking psychoanalytic interpretation of the master's work, a lighthearted look at Michelangelo and the medical profession and, finally, the shortest piece Steinberg ever published.

Michelangelo's Sculpture

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2018

1 184 kr

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original and daring art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretative risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures that ranged from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His works, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. For half a century, Steinberg delved into Michelangelo’s work, revealing the symbolic structures underlying the artist’s highly charged idiom. This volume of essays and unpublished lectures explicates many of Michelangelo’s most celebrated sculptures, applying principles gleaned from long, hard looking. Almost everything Steinberg wrote included passages of old-fashioned formal analysis, but here put to the service of interpretation. He understood that Michelangelo’s rendering of figures as well as their gestures and interrelations conveys an emblematic significance masquerading under the guise of naturalism. Michelangelo pushed Renaissance naturalism into the furthest reaches of metaphor, using the language of the body and its actions to express fundamental Christian tenets once expressible only by poets and preachers—or, as Steinberg put it, in Michelangelo’s art, “anatomy becomes theology.” Michelangelo’s Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg’s selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz. The volume also includes a book review debunking psychoanalytic interpretation of the master’s work, a light-hearted look at Michelangelo and the medical profession and, finally, the shortest piece Steinberg ever published.

Renaissance and Baroque Art

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

604 kr

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg's perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation.This volume begins and ends with thematic essays on two fundamental precepts of Steinberg's art history: how dependence on textual authority mutes the visual truths of images and why artists routinely copy or adapt earlier artworks. In between are fourteen chapters on masterpieces of Renaissance and Baroque art, with bold and enlightening interpretations of works by Mantegna, Filippo Lippi, Pontormo, El Greco, Caravaggio, Steen and, finally, Velazquez. Four chapters are devoted to some of Velazquez's best-known paintings, ending with the famously enigmatic Las Meninas.Renaissance and Baroque Art is the third volume in a series that presents Steinberg's writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Renaissance and Baroque Art

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2020

1 142 kr

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Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to contemporary art, he combined scholarly erudition with an eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis, but always put into the service of interpretation. This volume begins and ends with thematic essays on two fundamental precepts of Steinberg’s art history: how dependence on textual authority mutes the visual truths of images and why artists routinely copy or adapt earlier artworks. In between are fourteen chapters on masterpieces of renaissance and baroque art, with bold and enlightening interpretations of works by Mantegna, Filippo Lippi, Pontormo, El Greco, Caravaggio, Steen and, finally, Velázquez. Four chapters are devoted to some of Velázquez’s best-known paintings, ending with the famously enigmatic Las Meninas. Renaissance and Baroque Art is the third volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Picasso

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

561 kr

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The fourth volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on the artist Pablo Picasso. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he combined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis but always put into the service of interpretation. This volume brings together Steinberg’s essays on Pablo Picasso, many of which have been studied and debated for decades, such as “The Philosophical Brothel,” as well as unpublished lectures, including “The Intelligence of Picasso,” a wide-ranging look at Picasso’s enduring ambition to stretch the agenda of representation, from childhood drawings to his last self-portrait. An introduction by art historian Richard Shiff contextualizes these works and illuminates Steinberg’s lifelong dedication to refining the expository, interpretive, and rhetorical features of his writing. Picasso is the fourth volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Picasso

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

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PDF, Engelska, 2022

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The fourth volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on the artist Pablo Picasso. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he combined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis but always put into the service of interpretation. This volume brings together Steinberg’s essays on Pablo Picasso, many of which have been studied and debated for decades, such as “The Philosophical Brothel,” as well as unpublished lectures, including “The Intelligence of Picasso,” a wide-ranging look at Picasso’s enduring ambition to stretch the agenda of representation, from childhood drawings to his last self-portrait. An introduction by art historian Richard Shiff contextualizes these works and illuminates Steinberg’s lifelong dedication to refining the expository, interpretive, and rhetorical features of his writing. Picasso is the fourth volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Modern Art

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

561 kr

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The fifth and final volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he combined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis that were always put into the service of interpretation. Following the series publication on Pablo Picasso, this volume focuses on other modern artists, including Cézanne, Monet, Matisse, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Hans Haacke, and Jeff Koons. Included are seven unpublished lectures and essays, Steinberg’s landmark essay “Encounters with Rauschenberg,” a survey of twentieth-century sculpture, and an examination of the role of authorial predilections in critical writing. The final chapter presents a collection of Steinberg’s humorous pieces, witty forays penned for his own amusement. Modern Art is the fifth and final volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Modern Art

Selected Essays

AvLeo Steinberg,Sheila Schwartz

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2023

1 061 kr

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The fifth and final volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists. Leo Steinberg was one of the most original art historians of the twentieth century, known for taking interpretive risks that challenged the profession by overturning reigning orthodoxies. In essays and lectures ranging from old masters to modern art, he combined scholarly erudition with eloquent prose that illuminated his subject and a credo that privileged the visual evidence of the image over the literature written about it. His writings, sometimes provocative and controversial, remain vital and influential reading. Steinberg’s perceptions evolved from long, hard looking at his objects of study. Almost everything he wrote included passages of formal analysis that were always put into the service of interpretation. Following the series publication on Pablo Picasso, this volume focuses on other modern artists, including Cézanne, Monet, Matisse, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Hans Haacke, and Jeff Koons. Included are seven unpublished lectures and essays, Steinberg’s landmark essay “Encounters with Rauschenberg,” a survey of twentieth-century sculpture, and an examination of the role of authorial predilections in critical writing. The final chapter presents a collection of Steinberg’s humorous pieces, witty forays penned for his own amusement. Modern Art is the fifth and final volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.

Solid Gold Circle

AvSheila Schwartz

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

395 kr

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Growing Up Guilty

AvSheila Schwartz

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

132 kr

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Like Mother, Like Me

AvSheila Schwartz

Häftad, Engelska, 2006, 12-15 år

136 kr

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Little Terrorist

AvSheila Schwartz

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

272 kr

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Little Terrorist

AvSheila Schwartz

E-bok

Engelska, 2001

133 kr

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This is a story of family love and loss, joy and tragedy, set against a background of contemporary terrorism. It is particularly relevant today.

The heroine, Elizabeth Stern, is an affluent pediatric surgeon, whose husband and child are killed in the Athens Airport massacre, at the end of their vacation there. The little terrorist is Nadja, a little girl, the sole survivor of an exploding automobile, who is brought into the doctors operating room, in upstate New York, after Elizabeth pulls herself together enough to return to work.

Elizabeth functions like an automaton, devoting her life completely to her medical work, until she sees in Nadja a resemblance to her own daughter, and the girl becomes more than just another patient to her. She vows to save the girl, especially because she had no opportunity to save her own child. Gradually she begins to love Nadja, fantasizing that nobody will come for the girl and she will be able to take her home, put her into her daughters room, and have someone to love again.

The antagonist (initially) and love interest is David Hashemi, an FBI agent of Lebanese background, who is assigned to the hospital because the FBI has discovered that the same plastique that blew up the World Trade Center was in the car that exploded. At first, Elizabeth is hostile to him. She does not like the FBI, resents their campus harassment during the Vietnam War, is horrified by the WACO incinerations, and fears that they will take Nadja away from the hospital. Gradually, against her will, Elizabeth falls in love with David, as she finds that he is a good man; noble, caring, and brave, who needs love as much as she does.

The major figures at the hospital are :1) Clifford Grubman, the Hospital President, who is romantically interested in Elizabeth and 2) Molly Quinn, Elizabeths assistant nurse, who is Elizabeths best friend and forces her to stay alive after the Athens massacre.

The FBI remains at the hospital to keep Nadja under surveillance while waiting for her to regain consciousness, so that they can ask her about the cars destination. Certain that a backup team will come to replace the people blown up in the car, Hashemi says that it is essential to find the target to be bombed. Nadja is also under surveillance by other terrorists, who are hidden around the hospital and want to make sure that she does not divulge any information to the Americans.

During the following weeks, there are a number of dramatic confrontations. Hospital personnel and FBI agents are killed in their attempts to protect the girl. Hashemi decides that she must be moved and she and a nurse, Molly, are taken over night to Elizabeths house. Dr. Grubman is tortured and murdered when he can not divulge where Nadja is taken, when shes moved from the hospital.

However, before she can be moved again, she is kidnapped, Molly is injured and another FBI agent is killed.

Interrogating a woman arrested in a raid, Hashemi discovers that Nadja is to be used as a human bomb, like a kamikaze pilot or a suicide bomber, and that the target is the U. S. President, who will be arriving at Stewart Airport to pay a visit to Franklin Roosevelts legendary house in Hyde Park.

Hashemi tells Elizabeth that she must accept Nadjas inevitable death and forbids Elizabeth to come to the airport on the day of the confrontation. They quarrel violently about this and that morning, as soon as he is gone, Elizabeth drives herself to Stewart Airport.

When she sees Nadja out on the tarmac, she runs toward her, determined to save her. In the ensuing conflagration at Stewart Airport, the gang of terrorists is captured, Nadja and Elizabeth are saved, but Hashemi loses a leg running to protect them. He is angry and bitter and irrationally blames Elizabeth and Nadja for his loss. He is a hero, will be decorated and will be given a desk job by the FBI, but he is, as might be expected, inconsolable.

Although Hashem

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Michelangelo's Painting

Michelangelo's Sculpture

Michelangelo's Sculpture

Renaissance and Baroque Art

Renaissance and Baroque Art

Picasso

Picasso

Modern Art

Modern Art

Solid Gold Circle

Growing Up Guilty

Like Mother, Like Me

Little Terrorist

Little Terrorist

Mina sidor

Mina sidor

Hjälp

Hjälp

Om Bokus

Om Bokus

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Populärt

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Inspiration