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James Hall is Research Professor in Art History and Theory at Winchester School of Art, University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. One of the most versatile and original of art historians, he has written many essays on art history and contemporary art, and the following books: The World as Sculpture: the changing status of sculpture from the Renaissance to the present day (Chatto 1999); Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body (Chatto 2005 / Farrar Strauss and Giroux 2006); The Sinister Side: How Left-Right Symbolism Shaped Western Art (Oxford University Press 2008). The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History (Thames & Hudson 2014) won the Travelling Scholarship Prize and has been translated into five languages. The Artist's Studio: a Cultural History (Thames & Hudson / Einaudi 2022) is a sequel, that includes craftspeople as well as painters and sculptors. Major scholarly essays have been published in the Burlington Magazine, Oxford Art Journal and Simiolus. He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. Further information and examples of work can be found at: https://soton.academia.edu/jhall