Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art

Name: Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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ISBN: 9780226449975

ISBN-10: 0226449971

ISBN-13: 9780226449975

Edition: 1993

Authors: 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…

Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 564
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 5.478
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Prologue



Prosopopoeia



Self and Epoch



Organa of History



The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Durer



The Artist as Christ



Not Made by Human Hands



Figures of Omnivoyance



The Divine Hand



The Hairy, Bearded Painter



Representative Man



The Law of Authorship



Bas-de-Page



The Mortification of the Image: Hans Baldung Grien



Durer Disfigured



Death and Experience



Death as Hermeneutic



The Crisis of Interpretation



Homo Interpres in Bivio: Cranach and Luther



The Death of the Artist


Notes


Photographic


Credits


Index