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Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
(Zone Books)
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2001 by Zone Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-18-4, ISBN: 1-890951-18-8

"A picture universally recognized, endlessly scrutinized and described, incessantly copied, adapted, lampooned: does Leonardo's near-ruined Last Supper still offer anything new to be seen or to be said? This book is a resounding Yes to both questions. With direct perception -- -and with attention paid to the work of earlier scholars and to the criticism embodied in the produ ..."






The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion(2nd Edition)
by Leo Steinberg
Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77187-8, ISBN: 0-226-77187-3

"Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as ..."






Other Criteria(2nd Edition)
Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
by Leo Steinberg
Paperback, 436 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77185-4, ISBN: 0-226-77185-7

"Leo Steinberg’s classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from “Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public” and the “flatbed picture plane” to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called “a tour de force of critical method,” is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns’s work ever written. Thi ..."






Encounters with Rauschenberg(1st Edition)
(A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture)
by Leo Steinberg, Robert Rauschenberg
Paperback, 85 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77183-0, ISBN: 0-226-77183-0

"In his insightful and engrossing lecture, Leo Steinberg surveys and critiques the work of Robert Rauschenberg, one of the great American post-war artists. He also discusses his own experience as a critic in the exciting and turbulent art world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The result is a rare glimpse not only into Rauschenberg, but also into Steinberg.With the sharpness and confidence that can only come from a critic who has long ..."






The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion(1st Edition)
by Leo Steinberg
Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1984 by Pantheon
ISBN-13: 978-0-394-72267-2, ISBN: 0-394-72267-1

"Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genitalia as ..."






Other Criteria(Reprint)
Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Leo Steinberg
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1975 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-501846-2, ISBN: 0-19-501846-X

"Leo Steinberg’s classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from “Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public” and the “flatbed picture plane” to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called “a tour de force of critical method,” is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns’s work ever written. Thi ..."






The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion(2nd Edition)
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 426 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77186-1, ISBN: 0-226-77186-5

"Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's genital ..."






Art, Creativity, and the Sacred(1st Edition)
An Anthology in Religion and Art
by Doug Adams, David Altshuler, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Charles Scribner Iii, Leo Steinberg, Linda Altshuler, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 1984 by Crossroad Publishing Co.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8245-0609-4, ISBN: 0-8245-0609-X

"In a treatise on education, Rabindranath Tagore wrote, 'The object of education is to give man the unity of truth.' The contributors to this anthology have all been trained in the primary discipline of their inquiry, and have extended themselves beyond its traditional boundaries in a quest for the unity of truth. A major theme of that quest is the understanding that the spiritual impinges on the artistic and that the artistic expresses ..."






Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper
by Leo Steinberg
ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-19-1, ISBN: 1-890951-19-6






Other Criteria
Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77184-7, ISBN: 0-226-77184-9

"This edition includes a new preface and a handful of additional illustrations. “The art book of the year, if not of the decade and possibly of the century. . ."






Encounters with Rauschenberg
(A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture)
by Leo Steinberg, Robert Rauschenberg
Hardcover, 85 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77182-3, ISBN: 0-226-77182-2

"In his insightful and engrossing lecture, Leo Steinberg surveys and critiques the work of Robert Rauschenberg, one of the great American post-war artists. He also discusses his own experience as a critic in the exciting and turbulent art world of New York in the 1950s and 1960s. The result is a rare glimpse not only into Rauschenberg, but also into Steinberg.With the sharpness and confidence that can only come from a critic who has long ..."






Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane
A Study in Multiple Form and Architectural Symbolism (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts)
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 473 Pages, Published 1977 by Garland Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-0-8240-2008-8, ISBN: 0-8240-2008-1






Other Criteria(1st Edition)
Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 1972 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-501577-5, ISBN: 0-19-501577-0

"Leo Steinberg’s classic Other Criteria comprises eighteen essays on topics ranging from “Contemporary Art and the Plight of Its Public” and the “flatbed picture plane” to reflections on Picasso, Rauschenberg, Rodin, de Kooning, Pollock, Guston, and Jasper Johns. The latter, which Francine du Plessix Gray called “a tour de force of critical method,” is widely regarded as the most eye-opening analysis of the Johns’s work e ..."






Renaissance and Baroque Art(1st Edition)
Selected Essays (Essays by Leo Steinberg)
by Leo Steinberg, Sheila Schwartz, Stephen J. Campbell
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66872-7, ISBN: 0-226-66872-X

"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. ..."






Michelangelo's Painting(1st Edition)
Selected Essays (Essays by Leo Steinberg)
by Leo Steinberg, Sheila Schwartz, Alexander Nagel
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48226-2, ISBN: 0-226-48226-X

"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 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 ..."






Michelangelo's Sculpture(1st Edition)
Selected Essays (Essays by Leo Steinberg)
by Leo Steinberg, Sheila Schwartz, Richard Neer
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48257-6, ISBN: 0-226-48257-X

"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 w ..."






Jasper Johns
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, Published by Tiranti
ISBN-13: 978-0-85458-798-8, ISBN: 0-85458-798-5






OTHER CRITERIA
by Leo Steinberg
Hardcover, Published by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-199-41363-5, ISBN: 1-199-41363-1






Michelangelo’s Sculpture
Selected Essays
by Leo Steinberg
320 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-48260-6, ISBN: 0-226-48260-X

"Daedalus, 98 (Spring 1969), pp. 824–36. Included in ... On Michelangelo's Florentine Pietà and Madonna Medici (response to a letter concerning the above essay). Art Bulletin, 51 ... In Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition, Expo'67, Montreal, 1967. ... New York Review of Books, June 28, 1984, pp. 41– 45."






The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg
426 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-22631-6, ISBN: 0-226-22631-X

"Chapter 5 discusses images that violate the ancient taboo at its quick: the subject is the motif of the phallic erection in its ... they articulate common prejudice, and with this further aim: to puncture the presumption of book reviewers that their verdict is destiny. ... (Chapter 7 cross-examines three adversarial texts summoned by as many contenders against the book.) ... that caused Christ's sexual nature as depicted in Renaiss ..."



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