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Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind by C. Oliver O’Donnell

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Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind by C. Oliver O’Donnell

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Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/119/867426/0270119.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 adventures of fighting at Troy. In her final chapter, a study of the glossing of a poem by Marbod of Rennes leads to a description of the tradition of schoolboy performances of female characters that lasted in the all- male learning environ- ments of the West from antiquity into the Renaissance and even beyond. Woods’s description of boys learning not just Latin and literature but also empathy, and perhaps misogynistic abuse as well, through emotional response and actual per- formance of texts suggests insights that today’s educators could well use about both the benet fi s and the limitations of close attention to literature when teach - ing the young. — Caroline Walker Bynum doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723238 C. Oliver O’Donnell, Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019), 272 pp. Can a writer know too much? That is what I am wondering after reading O’Donnell’s book about Meyer Schapiro. O’Donnell is the first scholar to survey the entire career of this commanding figure in modern art history, who died in 1996 at the age of ninety- one. Schapiro, who had

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