{"id":22370,"date":"2016-04-20T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=22370"},"modified":"2016-04-20T16:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T21:47:43","slug":"apsu-professor-tamara-smithers-publishes-academic-book-on-italian-renaissance-painter-michelangelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2016\/04\/20\/apsu-professor-tamara-smithers-publishes-academic-book-on-italian-renaissance-painter-michelangelo\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU professor Tamara Smithers publishes academic book on Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Austin<\/strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> – Everyone has a reason for why they do what they do, and for Dr. Tamara Smithers, associate professor of art history at Austin Peay State University, the reason she has devoted her passion to the study of art history is the work of Italian Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo speak candidly, I\u2019ve been obsessed with Michelangelo \u2013 his artwork, his life and his legend \u2013 ever since I can remember,\u201d Smithers said.<\/p>\n

\"APSU<\/a>

APSU professor Dr. Tamara Smithers<\/p><\/div>\n

Recently, the APSU professor channeled a bit of her expertise on the massively influential creator into serving as editor and contributor for the volume \u201cMichelangelo in the New Millennium: Conversations about Artistic Practice, Patronage and Christianity,\u201d a new scholarly book published by Brill, a major publisher of academic publications.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichelangelo in the New Millennium\u201d presents six paired studies in dialogue with each other that offer new ways of looking at Michelangelo\u2019s art. The three sections address the literal and metaphorical flexibility of Michelangelo\u2019s artistic intentions, delve deeper into his early religious works, and take a new look at papal patronage of Paul III and IV.<\/p>\n

But before she could begin the process, Smithers said she had to answer one question \u2013 was there anything new to say about Michelangelo?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe answer, of course, is yes,\u201d Smithers said. \u201cIn the introduction of his 1995 series of collected essays, \u2018Michelangelo: Selected Scholarship in English,\u2019 Washington University in St. Louis professor William E. Wallace asked, \u2018Has the Bull Been Milked?\u2019 Decidedly he answered, \u2018There are still many cows to milk.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field of Michelangelo studies is thriving. However, since the turn of the millennium, only a few edited volumes have been published on Michelangelo-related topics and they focus on specific themes or artworks,\u201d Smithers continued. \u201cThis volume offers complementary-paired essays that utilize a variety of approaches on a wide range of topics on Michelangelo and the culture in which he lived.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each of the six essays in \u201cMichelangelo in the New Millennium\u201d is penned by someone new to publishing on Michelangelo in the new millennium. Hoping to offer a unique look at the influential creator, the collection as a whole re-explores the life, art and myth of Michelangelo\u2019s early career in Florence to his last works in Rome through the eyes of a new generation of scholars.<\/p>\n

[320left]\u201cWhile the authors employ an assortment of methodologies, each chapter offers something new by presenting an alternative iconographic reading of familiar works, offering different contextual insights, exploring an innovative theme or presenting fresh observations from close visual analysis,\u201d Smithers said.<\/p>\n

Smithers herself contributed to the collection, providing a student-friendly essay titled \u201cMichelangelo\u2019s Suicidal Stone,\u201d an anecdotal portrait, which explored not only Michelangelo\u2019s reactions to his peers and friends, but also the reactions of others\u2014patrons, collectors, art writers, artists, and stones alike\u2014to him.<\/p>\n

More information on \u201cMichelangelo in the New Millennium\u201d can be found by visiting www.brill.com\/products\/book\/michelangelo-new-millennium<\/a>. The book, which is now available, can be purchased on www.Brill.com<\/a>, as well as www.Amazon.com<\/a> and other retailers.<\/p>\n

For more information on the APSU Department of Art and Design, visit www.apsu.edu\/art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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