Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
2/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook431 pages11 hours
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
In 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.
Unavailable
Related to Bosch and Bruegel
Titles in the series (100)
Psychic Energy: Its Source and Its Transformation The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Complex/Archetype/Symbol in the Psychology of C.G. Jung Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Collected Dialogues of Plato Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6: Psychological Types Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chinese Art and Dynastic Time Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past - Updated Edition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order - Expanded Edition Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5C.G. Jung Letters, Volume 2: 1951-1961 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5C.G. Jung: Psychological Reflections. A New Anthology of His Writings, 1905-1961 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe I and the Not-I: A Study in the Development of Consciousness Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung: Revised Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Use and Abuse of Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chapman's Homer: The Iliad Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMudra: A Study of Symbolic Gestures in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 1: Psychiatric Studies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18: The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 1: 1: Italian Text and Translation; 2: Commentary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1: Text Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hieroglyphics of Horapollo Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chapman's Homer: The Odyssey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related ebooks
Bosch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edvard Munch Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hans Holbein the younger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArt & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalisation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Mythology of Forms: Selected Writings on Art Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie: Three Plays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsExpressionism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pieter Bruegel and artworks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Edvard Munch and artworks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kokoschka: The Untimely Modernist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKen Whisson: Painting and Drawing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWunderkind: Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeter Paul Rubens Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wallenstein, Soldier Under Saturn: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJourneys Into Madness: Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBosch and artworks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wimsey the Bloodhound's Institute of Houndish Art Volume One Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eugene Onegin (Translated by Henry Spalding) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art in History, 600 BC - 2000 AD: Ideas in Profile Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Photographic Guide to Marionettes in the Nineteenth Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeethoven's Symphonies: Nine Approaches to Art and Ideas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Notes from the Gallows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Artists Past and Present Random Studies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEinstein in Bohemia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLeon Bakst and artworks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Art For You
Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And The Mountains Echoed Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5How to Draw and Paint Anatomy, All New 2nd Edition: Creating Lifelike Humans and Realistic Animals Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art 101: From Vincent van Gogh to Andy Warhol, Key People, Ideas, and Moments in the History of Art Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Botanical Drawing: A Step-By-Step Guide to Drawing Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit and Other Plant Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Creative, Inc.: The Ultimate Guide to Running a Successful Freelance Business Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lioness of Boston: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Electric State Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Designer's Dictionary of Color Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shakespeare: The World as Stage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Drawing School: Fundamentals for the Beginner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Munch and The Scream: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream. 0% found this document usefulMunch and The Scream: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Edvard Munch and his most famous painting, The Scream. 0% found this document usefulEp 43: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting / "Tree of My Life" by Joseph Stella 0% found this document usefulWhitney Biennial reviewed, museum visits back to normal, Pieter Bruegel the Elder 0% found this document usefulHilma af Klint Pioneered Abstract Art. But That Is Only Part of Her Story 0% found this document usefulThe Triumphant, Tragic Life of Nazi-Era Artist Charlotte Salomon 0% found this document usefulLandscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination 0% found this document usefulS0206 Sanatorium Under The Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz 0% found this document usefulEpisode 44: Bienvenue, Willkommen, Welcome!: Dress: Fancy Goes to the Cabaret 0% found this document usefulThe Renaissance: Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance. 0% found this document usefulThe Renaissance: Melvyn Bragg explores the veracity of modern claims about the culture of the Renaissance. 100% found this document useful
Related articles
Bird’s Words The Big IssueArticle
Bird’s Words
Apr 18, 2022
3 min readCan Art Bridge Europe’s Divide? Guardian WeeklyArticle
Can Art Bridge Europe’s Divide?
Dec 10, 2021
3 min readThe Poor Relation Of The Art World The Critic MagazineArticle
The Poor Relation Of The Art World
Mar 30, 2023
6 min readA Hungry Heart Country LifeArticle
A Hungry Heart
Apr 17, 2024
6 min readExhibitions The OldieArticle
Exhibitions
Feb 7, 2024
1 min readWhy We’re All Still Screaming For Edvard Munch The IndependentArticle
Why We’re All Still Screaming For Edvard Munch
May 23, 2022
5 min readRejecting the Standard Art & AntiquesArticle
Rejecting the Standard
Jun 1, 2022
6 min readHow To Make An Impression Country LifeArticle
How To Make An Impression
Apr 3, 2024
7 min readYour Views Letters, Emails And Comments The Artist MagazineArticle
Your Views Letters, Emails And Comments
Apr 21, 2023
3 min readBooks BBC Music MagazineArticle
Books
Mar 18, 2021
3 min read3 7 Meret Oppenheim: Every Idea Is Born with Its Own Form ArtAsiaPacificArticle
3 7 Meret Oppenheim: Every Idea Is Born with Its Own Form
Nov 1, 2020
10 min readThe Art of Madness The Paris ReviewArticle
The Art of Madness
Feb 6, 2018
9 min readHuon Mallalieu The OldieArticle
Huon Mallalieu
Sep 21, 2022
1 min readLetter from Munich Opera CanadaArticle
Letter from Munich
Dec 13, 2019
6 min readHero Worship BBC Music MagazineArticle
Hero Worship
Oct 29, 2020
It wasn’t meant to be like this. With worldwide celebrations champing at the bit, 2020 was going to be Beethoven’s year… until a pandemic came along to rain on the anniversary parade. But it doesn’t always take a significant birthday to provide the e
5 min readThe Magic Of Reality Art & AntiquesArticle
The Magic Of Reality
Nov 1, 2022
6 min readThe Carnegie International Explores its Past With an Eye to the Future Guernica MagazineArticle
The Carnegie International Explores its Past With an Eye to the Future
Feb 7, 2019
7 min readWhat Great Paintings Say History RevealedArticle
What Great Paintings Say
Aug 4, 2022
2 min readPostwar Modern Ink PelletArticle
Postwar Modern
May 1, 2022
5 min readHans Holbein More Than A Tudor Artist All About HistoryArticle
Hans Holbein More Than A Tudor Artist
Aug 12, 2021
8 min readTo Make Art Is To Be Human Country LifeArticle
To Make Art Is To Be Human
Oct 13, 2021
IN 1950, Ernst Gombrich published The Story of Art. The book was an instant bestseller and was the first to show that there was, indeed, such a thing as a story of art, that artists and movements existed not in isolated moments of time, but as part o
7 min readBeethoven’s Homage To Nature Country LifeArticle
Beethoven’s Homage To Nature
Oct 18, 2023
6 min readKeeping It Real Art & AntiquesArticle
Keeping It Real
Dec 1, 2020
4 min readThe Primacy of Painting Art & AntiquesArticle
The Primacy of Painting
Jun 12, 2020
2 min readWas Burne-Jones A Reluctant Radical? Country LifeArticle
Was Burne-Jones A Reluctant Radical?
Jun 1, 2022
THE title of this book is, at first glance, a curious one. What exactly was radical about the medievalist, mystical and Michelangelesque paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones? They show a very Victorian dream world, comprising Arthurian
5 min readMissionary Man Artists & IllustratorsArticle
Missionary Man
Mar 15, 2024
4 min readJohn Olsen Goya’s Dog Artist ProfileArticle
John Olsen Goya’s Dog
May 25, 2021
5 min readThe Best Exhibitions To See In Europe In Summer 2022, From Pharoahs In Paris To Gauguin In Berlin Evening StandardArticle
The Best Exhibitions To See In Europe In Summer 2022, From Pharoahs In Paris To Gauguin In Berlin
May 31, 2022
7 min readCompulsively Driven BBC Music MagazineArticle
Compulsively Driven
Mar 21, 2023
7 min readAn Embracing Tussle Art Guide AustraliaArticle
An Embracing Tussle
May 1, 2022
5 min read
Reviews for Bosch and Bruegel
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
1 rating0 reviews