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Among China scholars, there has been much debate about the book's editorializing (it was published in Britain in June). Chang and Halliday spent years researching the book and conducted interviews with surviving Mao associates around the world. But for all its detail, this is a one-dimensional portrait, an exhaustive trashing that gives one pause, as does the certainty with which many events are described. "Mao did not care one iota what happened after his death," the authors say. Who could characterize even their own feelings with such certitude...
...comes at a high-water mark for the continuous tide of Shakespeare scholarship. Last year, Stephen J. Greenblatt, who holds the Cogan university chair in the humanities at Harvard, penned “Will in the World,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist. While Greenblatt offers a sweeping portrait of the Bard’s life, Shapiro focuses on Shakespeare in the year that the playwright turned 35. In fact, Shapiro devoted five years of his life to a single year of Shakespeare’s. Like a detective sifting through a historical paper trail, the Columbia scholar squeezed...
...showcasing a collection in three parts of photographs amassed and until now collecting dust like most of the university’s gathering in a Harvard depository. Hidden from tourists and casual museum-goers only interested in the celebrity of Van Gogh’s self-portrait and the Bernini sketch collection, the photography is surprisingly compelling, with emotionally raw prints that compose a time capsule of social changes and events of the 20th century. Portraits of children cringing at their first haircut, tuxedo-clad men diving head first into a fountain, an elderly couple standing by their piano...
...Edgar Degas during a trip to Italy in the 1850s.“He reused the same pose,” Wolohojian explains. The proud posture of Degas’ young cousin Giulia Bellelli is the exact mirror of the disdainfully regal pose of the woman in the Renaissance portrait. Wolohjian hopes visitors will see these sorts of connections as they explore the exhibit, on display at the Sackler Museum now through Nov. 27. Unlike Wolohojian, who currently teaches History of Art and Architecture 171w: “Edgar Degas,” I don’t have...
...stood in the Naumberg room of the Fogg Art Museum this May, next to a portrait of his likeness that now graces the walls of Harvard University, Senior Admissions Officer David L. Evans seemed a long way from his childhood home.The son of two sharecroppers who had six years of education between them, Evans was orphaned by the age of 16. But his parents’ untimely deaths did not prevent them from inspiring their seven children with a message that would send them on paths to great success.For more than 35 years, Evans has filled a wide range...