Joseph Leo Koerner

Bosch and Bruegel

From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us. Supreme virtuoso of the biza

Produktdetails

• Bollingen Series
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 287mm x 210mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1904g
• ISBN-13: 9780691172286
• ISBN-10: 0691172285
• Artikelnr.: 44942601

Autorenporträt

Joseph Leo Koerner is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His previous books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, The Reformation of the Image, and Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape.

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"A tremendous achievement. Koerner is one of the most gifted and intelligent art historians at work anywhere, as well as a remarkably fluent and resourceful stylist capable of presenting extremely subtle and persuasive readings in elegant and simple prose."--Michael Fried, author of The Moment of Caravaggio