- Hardcover: 564 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; illustrated edition edition (1 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226449971
- ISBN-13: 978-0226449975
- Product Dimensions: 28.6 x 22.9 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,464,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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 History." -- Larry Silver, "Sixteenth Century ""Journal"
"May be the most ambitious of recent American reflections on the mysteries of German art. His elegantly written book deals with the fateful period in the history of German art when it reached its highest point. . . . Offers deeper and more disturbing insights into German Renaissance art than most earlier scholarship." -- Willibald Sauerlander, "New York Review of Books"
"[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 History." -- Larry Silver, "Sixteenth Century ""Journal"
"May be the most ambitious of recent American reflections on the mysteries of German art. His elegantly written book deals with the fateful period in the history of German art when it reached its highest point. . . . Offers deeper and more disturbing insights into German Renaissance art than most earlier scholarship." -- Willibald Sauerlander, "New York Review of Books"
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with Koerner's work on Caspar David Friedrich, this is a masterpiece of its kind. It draws on a comprehensive understanding of the period and its intellectual climate, and allies this to some of the most penetrating and illuminating close readings of individual works. The author's ability to draw far reaching implications from even the smallest and apparently humblest of works is at times quite astonishing. Koerner steers a superb course, never allowing the individual works of art to vanish in the sweep of his argument, nor falling into the pedantic habits of much academic scholarship. This is art history as it should be; not arcane debates on minor points, but an urgent and complex work, illuminating issues which remain profound to this day. Koerner's work is a model of what art history can be in today's intellectual climate.
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Supreme interpretive scholarship
15 Oct 2000
Format:Paperback
Joseph Leo Koerner must rank as one of the most able and compelling figures writing in the field of Art History today. As with his previous work on Caspar David Friedrich this work is a masterpiece of interpretative criticism and research. Koerner proceeds always from close readings of individual works, but then sets them at the centre of a nexus of complex philosophical and socio historical questions. He invokes not only the writings of Durer's contemporaries, but such figures as Foucault and Adorno in drawing out the profoundest implications from the works cited. If proof were neeeded that art history can be urgent and disturbing rather than pedantic and arcane, then this book should offer it. As one reaches the end of this book one understands that the complex issues of identity which Durer and his circle grappled with are as vital and disturbing at the turn of the millenium as the were when Durer worked on the brink of the half millenium.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A Moment of Awe for a Moment of Self-Portraiture
1 Dec 2003
Format:Paperback
As neither an art historian nor an artist, I don't know how I was lucky enough to find this book. It is an intellecutally and aesthetically enriching experience from start to finish. The author presents Durer in a full historical context, dramatically explaining his importance in time and place. Many illustrations are included, the style is very readable, and the fascination of watching Durer emerge from the pages of the book and the mists of the Middle Ages in Germany, is just terrific! You will learn more than you perhaps thought possible about Durer and you may also wonder, as I did, why I had not appreciated his art more.
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