The moment of self-portraiture in German renaissance art - Joseph Leo Koerner
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In this groundbreaking and elegantly written study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany. Opening up new modes of inquiry for historians of art and early modern Europe, Koerner examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in sixteenth-century Germany. "[A] dazzling book. . . . He has turned out one of the most powerful, as well as one of the most ambitious, art-historical works of the last decade." — Anthony Grafton, New Republic "Rich and splendid. . . . Joseph Koerner's book is a dazzling display of scholarship, enfolding Durer's artistic achievement within the broader issues of self and salvation, and like [Durer's] great Self- Portrait it holds up a mirror to the modern fable of identity." — Bruce Boucher, The Times "Remarkable and densely argued." — Marcia Pointon, British Journal of Aesthetics "Herculean and brilliant. . . . Will echo in fields beyond the Sixteenth-Century and Art Histo...
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1993Uitgever: University of Chicago Press543 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0226449971ISBN-13: 9780226449975Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Koerner, Joseph Leo] [Pagina's: 543] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: The University of Chicago Press] [Jaar: 1993] [Titel: The Moment of Self-portraiture in German Renaissance Art]
