The Reformation of the Image (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
486
Utgivningsdatum
2004-01-01
Förlag
Reaktion Books
Illustratör/Fotograf
16 colour illustrations 154 black & white illustrations
Illustrationer
154 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations
Dimensioner
245 x 175 x 45 mm
Vikt
1330 g
ISBN
9781861891723

The Reformation of the Image

av Joseph Leo Koerner
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2004-01-01

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In "The Reformation of the Image", Joseph Leo Koerner examines the images used in Protestant church services during the period of their definition by Martin Luther. Focusing on Lucas Cranach the Elder's famous altarpiece for the City Church in Wittenberg, and drawing on a mass of other Lutheran images some of which have never been published before he elucidates a founding moment in European history when words were made the model for all communication. In determining why images persisted despite their repudiation as empty idols, Koerner locates the conflict between verbal and visual communication in the emergence of a state-supported, state-supporting faith. Examining the images made for Luther's new religion of inward belief, he shows the process by which, through an interplay between pictures and words, subjects were trained to believe what someone else believed. This ground-breaking study of a decisive but little-known episode in the history of art explores how, by re-describing arguments made against them, visual images persis.
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One of the most important and brilliant studies ever written of the impact of Protestantism on art production and reception ... Koerner's book will immediately become essential reading, and not only for specialists in German art -- Stephen Greenblatt The Reformation of the Image is a tour de force -- Christopher Wood

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Joseph Leo Koerner is Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993) and Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (First Edition Reaktion 1993, Second Edition Reaktion 2009).

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