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September 7, 2004
Joseph Leo Koerner The Reformation of the Image Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. 464 pp.; 16 color ills.; 260 b/w ills. Cloth $48.00 (0226450066)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.72

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Anyone familiar with Joseph Leo Koerner’s book on Albrecht Dürer, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), will approach this new work with high expectations. The earlier one offered a philosophical, yet also poetic, interpretation of one of the best-known artists of the Northern Renaissance. With its powerfully articulated thesis—that Dürer’s self-portrait of 1500 was responsible for creating “the age of art”—supported by engaging, erudite, and convincing arguments,...