{"product_id":"the-moment-of-self-portraiture-in-joseph-leo-koerner-9780226449999","title":"The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[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, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eSelf-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortrait\u003c\/i\u003e it holds up a mirror to the modern fable of identity.\" -- Bruce Boucher, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Remarkable and densely argued.\" -- Marcia Pointon, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Herculean and brilliant. . . . Will echo in fields beyond the Sixteenth-Century and Art History.\" -- Larry Silver, \u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Leo Koerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226449998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226449999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.01h x 8.52w x 1.31d","brand":"Joseph Leo Koerner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48447601508607,"sku":"9780226449999","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7a376d3-8d5f-49f7-b24e-407a5da28b82.jpg?v=1777233780","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-moment-of-self-portraiture-in-joseph-leo-koerner-9780226449999","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}