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Leo Steinberg
Does Leonardo’s near-ruined Last Supper still offer anything new to be seen or to be said? This work is a resounding Yes to both questions. With direct perception Leo Steinberg…
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Comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public and the flat-bed picture plane to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston…
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Steinberg argues in this work that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ’s genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition.
How the influential American art historian used his print collection to theorize body language and the concept of the copy
Beginning in the early 1960s, with only the meager budget…
Michelangelo’s Paintings is the second volume in a series that presents Steinberg’s writings, selected and edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
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…
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The fifth and final volume in the Essays by Leo Steinberg series, focusing on modern artists.
Michelangelo’s Sculpture is the first in a series of volumes of Steinberg’s selected writings and unpublished lectures, edited by his longtime associate Sheila Schwartz.
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…