{"product_id":"the-reformation-of-the-image-joseph-leo-koerner-9780226448374","title":"The Reformation of the Image","description":"Martin Luther preached the radical notion that we are saved through faith alone. With one stroke, he overturned a thousand years of practice and teaching. Gone was the need for saintly intercessors and a special priesthood or the richly decorated and image-filled churches in which such mediation could take place. What counted now was faith arriving inwardly, in each individual, through the text of the Bible--the naked Word of God itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut if words--not iconic images--led the believer to salvation, why didn't religious imagery disappear during the Reformation? The answer, according to Joseph Leo Koerner's masterful \u003ci\u003eThe Reformation of the Image\u003c\/i\u003e, lies in the paradoxical nature of Protestant religious imagery itself, which is at once both iconic and iconoclastic. According to Koerner, it is this \"iconoclash\" that characterizes Reformation art. \u003ci\u003eThe Reformation of the Image\u003c\/i\u003e compellingly shows how visual art became indispensable to a religious movement built on words. It also reveals in Protestant images a powerful instance of modern disenchantment: the disappearance of magic both from images and from the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unfailingly arresting and inventive . . . it is a long time since a work of art history has kept me so consistently reaching for a pencil to register ardent appreciation or violent dissent.\"--Eamon Duffy, \u003ci\u003eLondon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Leo Koerner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226448371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226448374\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 01\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.15h x 6.65w x 0.96d","brand":"Joseph Leo Koerner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990112665855,"sku":"9780226448374","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f3400ed-e2dc-4cb6-856c-cd1f8fb249ba.jpg?v=1683303065","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reformation-of-the-image-joseph-leo-koerner-9780226448374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}