James Hall

James Hall is an art critic and historian, currently Research Professor at the University of Southampton. Noted for his versatility and originality, his books include The World as Sculpture (Chatto, 1999); Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body (Chatto, 2005); 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. Hall’s essays have appeared in the Burlington Magazine, Oxford Art Journal and Simiolus. He is a regular contributor to the Art Newspaper and Times Literary Supplement. His new book, The Artist’s Studio: a Cultural History, is published in October 2022 by Thames & Hudson. Many examples of his work can be found at https://soton.academia.edu/jhall?from_navbar=true.