The Reformation of the Image - Couverture rigide

Koerner, Joseph Leo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1861891725 ISBN 13 : 9781861891723

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2004

Synopsis

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 persist.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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), Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (Reaktion, 1st edn 1993, 2nd edn 2009) and Reformation of the Image (Reaktion, 2004).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861891725
• ISBN 13: 9781861891723
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 486
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible