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In this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany.

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List of Illustrations Preface Prologue 1: Prosopopoeia 2: Self and Epoch 3: Organa of History Pt. 1: The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Durer 4: The Artist as Christ 5: Not Made by Human Hands 6: Figures of Omnivoyance 7: The Divine Hand 8: The Hairy, Bearded Painter 9: Representative Man 10: The Law of Authorship 11: Bas-de-Page Pt. 2: The Mortification of the Image: Hans Baldung Grien 12: Durer Disfigured 13: Death and Experience 14: Death as Hermeneutic 15: The Crisis of Interpretation 16: Homo Interpres in Bivio: Cranach and Luther 17: The Death of the Artist Notes Photographic Credits Index

The Moment of SelfPortraiture in German

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/02/1997
      ISBN13: 9780226449999, 978-0226449999
      ISBN10: 0226449998
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Preface Prologue 1: Prosopopoeia 2: Self and Epoch 3: Organa of History Pt. 1: The Project of Self-Portraiture: Albrecht Durer 4: The Artist as Christ 5: Not Made by Human Hands 6: Figures of Omnivoyance 7: The Divine Hand 8: The Hairy, Bearded Painter 9: Representative Man 10: The Law of Authorship 11: Bas-de-Page Pt. 2: The Mortification of the Image: Hans Baldung Grien 12: Durer Disfigured 13: Death and Experience 14: Death as Hermeneutic 15: The Crisis of Interpretation 16: Homo Interpres in Bivio: Cranach and Luther 17: The Death of the Artist Notes Photographic Credits Index

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