Christ made male, by Charles Dempsey, THE NEW CRITERION

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Christ made male

The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, by Leo Steinberg

by Charles Dempsey

The New Criterion, December 1984, pp. 71-76

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    2. Julian Schnabel paints a portrait of God by Suzi Gablik, pp. 10-18
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      1. A Personal History by A.J.P. Taylor
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    13. Letters, pp. 83-90
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    February 1984 Issue = 14 Articles
    1. The MLA centennial follies by Hilton Kramer, pp. 1-8
    2. Music in partibus infidelium by Samuel Lipman, pp. 9-11
    3. Derrida's dullards, Woolf's womyn by Bruce Bawer, pp. 12-15
    4. Statement on the Petrashevsky Affair by Joseph Frank, pp. 16-30
    5. Artful lying by Marnie Jones, pp. 31-42
    6. The brevity of Juan Gris by Dan Hofstadter, pp. 43-51
    7. Tennessee Williams and the fiddle in the wings by Mimi Kramer, pp. 52-57
    8. Messiaen at the Opera by Patrick J. Smith, pp. 58-63
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      1. Balanchine's Ballerinas by Robert Tracy and Sharon DeLano
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      1. Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 by Joseph Frank
    13. Philosophizing at the Sheraton-Boston by Roger Kimball, pp. 81-84
    14. Marilyn Horne's great American songbook by Samuel Lipman, pp. 85-94
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    1. Waiting for Kynaston by Hilton Kramer, pp. 1-5
    2. Opera 1984 by Samuel Lipman, pp. 6-20
    3. Cyril Connolly and the groans of success by Cynthia Ozick, pp. 21-27
    4. Late Picasso by Jed Perl, pp. 28-38
    5. "Les Troyens" at the Met by Jacques Barzun, pp. 39-44
    6. The resurrection of the "Last Supper" by Creighton Gilbert, pp. 45-49
    7. The American Stoppard by Mimi Kramer, pp. 50-55
    8. Treason in season by Herb Greer, pp. 56-62
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      1. H.D.: Collected Poems, 1912-1944 by Hilda Doolittle and Louis L. Martz
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      Meandering with Montaigne by David Paul, pp. 70-75 - 1 Review
      1. Montaigne's Travel Journal by Donald M. Frame and Michel de Montaigne
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      From Kant to cant by Roger Kimball, pp. 76-83 - 1 Review
      1. The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern
    12. An exchange of letters on "criticism endowed", pp. 84-98
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    1. Professor Howe's prescriptions by Hilton Kramer, pp. 1-5
    2. A new museum for Los Angeles by Christopher Knight, pp. 6-10
    3. Growing up with old records by Samuel Lipman, pp. 11-21
    4. "The battle it was born to lose" by Robert Richman, pp. 22-34
    5. Paul Modersohn-Becker by Dan Hofstadter, pp. 35-46
    6. Pater and Berenson by Paul Barolsky, pp. 47-59
    7. New poems by Donald Hall, pp. 60-62
    8. Floating light in Tokyo by Brad Leithauser, pp. 63-64
    9. Certain vers librists; Clearing the shelf by Donald Petersen, pp. 65-67
    10. Turning back the clock by Hilton Kramer, pp. 68-74
    11. Broadway goes to school by Mimi Kramer, pp. 75-81
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      1. Cincinnatus: George Washington and the Enlightenment by Garry Wills
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      Acts of reverence by Bruce Bawer, pp. 90-102 - 1 Review
      1. The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Giroux
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    1. Bonnard in Paris by Hilton Kramer, pp. 1-6
    2. Balthus in New York by Jed Perl, pp. 7-19
    3. The novel in the academy by Bruce Bawer, pp. 20-30
    4. Relativities by David Paul, pp. 31-47
    5. New poems by Donald Petersen, pp. 48-49
    6. High water; Alone for a week; Drink, eat, sleep by Jane Kenyon, pp. 50-52
    7. The broken willow; The otter by C.H. Sisson, pp. 53-54
    8. First skaters, Perkins Pier by Norman Williams, pp. 55-57
    9. Que Seurat Seurat by Mimi Kramer, pp. 58-64
    10. A note from the publisher, pp. 65-68
    11. The "triumph" of Mark Tansey by Eric Gibson, pp. 69-72
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    15. Mme. Pierre Monteux (1894-1984) by Samuel Lipman, pp. 88-98
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    10. The art inside the book by Creighton Gilbert, pp. 65-68
    11. Spring exhibitions by Eric Gibson, pp. 69-73
    12. Greeks invade Bloomsbury by Herb Greer, pp. 74-81
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    15. A response to "The MLA centennial follies", pp. 94-102
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    4. Miller in Boston by Dan Hofstadter, pp. 34-40
    5. "Sackets Harbor, 1866" by Herbert Morris, pp. 41-49
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    3. Max Beckmann by Dan Hofstadter, pp. 17-25
    4. The "Pushcart Prize" story by Bruce Bawer, pp. 26-35
    5. Edgar Wind by Creighton Gilbert, pp. 36-42
    6. New poems by Donald Justice, p. 43
    7. The painters by Jane Kenyon, p. 44
    8. Early and late by Donald Petersen, p. 45
    9. Does a rake go to the brothel to sing? by Peter Porter, pp. 46-48
    10. McKim, Mead & White and the Renaissance in New York by William H. Jordy, pp. 49-61
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    12. American still life by Eric Gibson, pp. 70-75
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    3. Learning from Leavis by Mark Stevens, pp. 16-21
    4. Max BeckmannYESc the later work by Dan Hofstadter, pp. 22-29
    5. Letters of Henry James by Joseph Epstein, pp. 30-41
    6. New poems by Paul Mariani, pp. 42-43
    7. The hawk climbs by Leslie Norris, pp. 44-45
    8. Inertia by Richard Kenney, pp. 46-47
    9. Ansel Adams by Andy Grundberg, pp. 48-52
    10. Stravinsky's Rake, City Opera's progress by Samuel Lipman, pp. 53-56
    11. The art of George McNeil by Eric Gibson, pp. 57-60
    12. Reactionary Papp by Mimi Kramer, pp. 61-69
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    5. "Boardwalk" by Herbert Morris, pp. 37-46
    6. Pops in Portland, Elektra in San Francisco by Samuel Lipman, pp. 47-51
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    8. Brice Marden's abstraction by Eric Gibson, pp. 62-64
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