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Bosch and Bruegel : From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life / Joseph Leo Koerner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 325 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780691253008
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 759.9492/09031 23
LOC classification:
  • ND653.B65 K64 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Parallel Worlds -- Chapter 1 In the Art- Historical Museum -- Chapter 2 Life Time -- Chapter 3 World Time -- Chapter 4 From Bosch to Bruegel -- Part I. Hieronymus Bosch -- Chapter 5 Enmity -- Chapter 6 Among the Idols -- Chapter 7 The Unspeakable Subject -- Chapter 8 Self- Portraiture -- Part II. Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Chapter 9 History -- Chapter 10 Culture -- Chapter 11 Nature -- Notes -- Index -- Photography and Copyright Credits
Summary: A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance mastersIn 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 bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their differences, the works of these two artists are closely intertwined. Bruegel began his career imitating Bosch's fantasies, and it was Bosch who launched almost the whole repertoire of later genre painting. But Bosch depicts everyday life in order to reveal it as an alluring trap set by a metaphysical enemy at war with God, whereas Bruegel shows this enemy to be nothing but a humanly fabricated mask. Attending closely to the visual cunning of these two towering masters, Koerner uncovers art history’s unexplored underside: the image itself as an enemy.An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through the agency of art. It takes readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two unforgettable artists—including Bosch’s notoriously elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the core of this historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated, the book is based on Koerner’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Parallel Worlds -- Chapter 1 In the Art- Historical Museum -- Chapter 2 Life Time -- Chapter 3 World Time -- Chapter 4 From Bosch to Bruegel -- Part I. Hieronymus Bosch -- Chapter 5 Enmity -- Chapter 6 Among the Idols -- Chapter 7 The Unspeakable Subject -- Chapter 8 Self- Portraiture -- Part II. Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Chapter 9 History -- Chapter 10 Culture -- Chapter 11 Nature -- Notes -- Index -- Photography and Copyright Credits

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A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance mastersIn 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 bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their differences, the works of these two artists are closely intertwined. Bruegel began his career imitating Bosch's fantasies, and it was Bosch who launched almost the whole repertoire of later genre painting. But Bosch depicts everyday life in order to reveal it as an alluring trap set by a metaphysical enemy at war with God, whereas Bruegel shows this enemy to be nothing but a humanly fabricated mask. Attending closely to the visual cunning of these two towering masters, Koerner uncovers art history’s unexplored underside: the image itself as an enemy.An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through the agency of art. It takes readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two unforgettable artists—including Bosch’s notoriously elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the core of this historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated, the book is based on Koerner’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

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