Joseph Leo Koerner
Biographic Data
| ID | 279019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Leo Koerner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Koerner |
| SIGNATURE | KOERNER J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Peter Weibel
He was always the youngest in the group. In 1966, the core participants in what he-with Valie Export-would later dub "Viennese Actionism" applied for government funding to attend the Destruction in Art Symposium in London. The group sent him, just twenty-two years old, to the ministry to argue their case. He remained their go-to spokesperson. On June 7, 1968, at the Kunst und Revolution event in Lecture Hall 1 of the University of Vienna, it was …
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader
Initially in college and then throughout my career, the writings of the German philosopher and historian Hans Blumenberg (1920 – 1996) have been my secret talisman, warding off the tedium of routine academic labor by conjuring, with poetry and precision, higher powers of thought. I read him first for his fabulous, inimitable German style, which blurs the boundaries between historical survey, philosophical meditation, and creative fiction. Then I …
The moment of the Fall: A challenge to ethical reasoning
Iconoclash in Northern Italy circa 1500
This article draws together two works created in late fifteenth-century Mantua. Although radically different in kind, they were borne from the same acts of violence: Andrea Mantegna’s Madonna of Victory and a responsum about Jewish religious law by Rabbi Joseph Colon. Mantegna’s altarpiece, painted to commemorate the bloody battle of Fornova as a Gonzaga victory, was paid for by Daniele Norsa; Norsa, a Jewish banker, was accused of destroying a p…
Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance by Edward H. Wouk
Review Article| January 01 2020 Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance by Edward H. Wouk Wouk, Edward H., Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2018), 858 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 161–162. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899832 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share …
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Bass
Book Review| April 01 2019 Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Bass Bass, Marisa, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 222 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 456–457. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312645 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
Afterword
On monuments
Iconoclasm has, of course, a more constricted meaning than the destruction of objects. As the word’s Greek root εἰκονοκλάστης indicates, and as the actions of seventh-century Byzantine image breakers attest, iconoclasm denotes the smashing of an icon (εἰκον) specifically, which is to say, of portrait likenesses of personages. Even within that narrower definition, however, iconoclasm vents its fury against icons because they are mere things that, …
Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné / Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Technical Studies
Book Review| September 01 2017 Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné / Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Technical Studies Ilsink, Matthijs, Koldeweij, Jos, Sprong, Ron, Hoogstede, Luuk, Erdmann, Robert G., Gotink, Rik Klein, Nap, Hanneke, and Velhuizen, Daan, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), 463 pp.Hoogstede, Luuk, Sprong, Ron, Erdmann, Robert …
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity
Book Review| September 01 2017 Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity Bass, Marisa, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 222 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 532–533. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
William Kentridge: Tapestries—A Collaboration with Stephens Tapestry Studio Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg November 18, 2015–December 15, 2015
During the last two months of 2014, the galleries of the Wits Art museum were hung with remarkable tapestries after William Kentridge's designs. These weavings looked custom-made for this space. Displaying twenty weavings along with preparatory and related objects—raw materials, mock-ups, cartoons, motifs cast in bronze, etc.—curator Fiona Rankin-Smith took visitors deep inside the artist's studio Figs. 1–2). To anyone who knew Kentridge's work w…
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Writing Rituals
This essay finds its departure point in a title page that Aby Warburg (1866 - 1929) drafted for his lecture on the Pueblo Indians. Through the labyrinthine thought pathways evidenced by this much-amended and overwritten typescript, it explores the relation between reason and mania in Warburg's thought specifically and in humanistic scholarship more generally. Composed in 1923 while Warburg was committed to the Bellevue mental sanatorium in Kreuzl…
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
William Kentridge: Five themes
With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans - both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse.This extraordinary catalog, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career such as: Soh…
Impossible Objects: Bosch's Realism
Unmasking the World
Research Article| April 01 2004 UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 220–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-220 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Leo Koerner; UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography. Common Knowledge 1 April 2004; 10 (2): 220–251. doi: https…
Factura
The Abject of Art History
Ideas about the thing, not the thing itself: Hans Blumenberg's style
The Extensionless Point of Practice
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
Rembrandt and the Epiphany of the Face
The Mortification of the Image: Death as a Hermeneutic in Hans Baldung Grien
The Fate of the Thing: Ornament and Vessel in Chou Bronze Interlacery
Impossible Objects: Bosch's Realism
The Mortification of the Image: Death as a Hermeneutic in Hans Baldung Grien
On monuments
Iconoclasm has, of course, a more constricted meaning than the destruction of objects. As the word’s Greek root εἰκονοκλάστης indicates, and as the actions of seventh-century Byzantine image breakers attest, iconoclasm denotes the smashing of an icon (εἰκον) specifically, which is to say, of portrait likenesses of personages. Even within that narrower definition, however, iconoclasm vents its fury against icons because they are mere things that, …
Writing Rituals
This essay finds its departure point in a title page that Aby Warburg (1866 - 1929) drafted for his lecture on the Pueblo Indians. Through the labyrinthine thought pathways evidenced by this much-amended and overwritten typescript, it explores the relation between reason and mania in Warburg's thought specifically and in humanistic scholarship more generally. Composed in 1923 while Warburg was committed to the Bellevue mental sanatorium in Kreuzl…
Unmasking the World
Research Article| April 01 2004 UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 220–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-220 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Leo Koerner; UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography. Common Knowledge 1 April 2004; 10 (2): 220–251. doi: https…
Rembrandt and the Epiphany of the Face
The Mortification of the Image: Death as a Hermeneutic in Hans Baldung Grien
The Fate of the Thing: Ornament and Vessel in Chou Bronze Interlacery
Rembrandt and the Epiphany of the Face
Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
Ideas about the thing, not the thing itself: Hans Blumenberg's style
The Extensionless Point of Practice
The Abject of Art History
Factura
Impossible Objects: Bosch's Realism
Unmasking the World
Research Article| April 01 2004 UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 220–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-220 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseph Leo Koerner; UNMASKING THE WORLD: Bruegel's Ethnography. Common Knowledge 1 April 2004; 10 (2): 220–251. doi: https…
William Kentridge: Five themes
With a searing body of work ranging from drawings and films to prints, tapestries, and sculptures, William Kentridge (b. 1955) has offered a fresh and distinctive glimpse of the daily lives of South Africans - both during the apartheid regime and after its collapse.This extraordinary catalog, produced in close collaboration with the artist, investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his career such as: Soh…
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the "Age of Discovery" to the Age of Abolition, Part 1: Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque
Introduction: Warburg's Library and Its Legacy
In this introduction to a Common Knowledge special issue on the Warburg Institute, the authors argue that the Institute remains today - as it has been, in different forms, for almost a century - one of Europe's central institutions for the study of cultural history. At once a rich and uniquely organized library, a center for doctoral and postdoctoral research, and a teaching faculty, the Institute was first envisioned by Aby Warburg, a pioneering…
Writing Rituals
This essay finds its departure point in a title page that Aby Warburg (1866 - 1929) drafted for his lecture on the Pueblo Indians. Through the labyrinthine thought pathways evidenced by this much-amended and overwritten typescript, it explores the relation between reason and mania in Warburg's thought specifically and in humanistic scholarship more generally. Composed in 1923 while Warburg was committed to the Bellevue mental sanatorium in Kreuzl…
William Kentridge: Tapestries—A Collaboration with Stephens Tapestry Studio Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg November 18, 2015–December 15, 2015
During the last two months of 2014, the galleries of the Wits Art museum were hung with remarkable tapestries after William Kentridge's designs. These weavings looked custom-made for this space. Displaying twenty weavings along with preparatory and related objects—raw materials, mock-ups, cartoons, motifs cast in bronze, etc.—curator Fiona Rankin-Smith took visitors deep inside the artist's studio Figs. 1–2). To anyone who knew Kentridge's work w…
Afterword
On monuments
Iconoclasm has, of course, a more constricted meaning than the destruction of objects. As the word’s Greek root εἰκονοκλάστης indicates, and as the actions of seventh-century Byzantine image breakers attest, iconoclasm denotes the smashing of an icon (εἰκον) specifically, which is to say, of portrait likenesses of personages. Even within that narrower definition, however, iconoclasm vents its fury against icons because they are mere things that, …
Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné / Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Technical Studies
Book Review| September 01 2017 Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné / Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Technical Studies Ilsink, Matthijs, Koldeweij, Jos, Sprong, Ron, Hoogstede, Luuk, Erdmann, Robert G., Gotink, Rik Klein, Nap, Hanneke, and Velhuizen, Daan, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draftsman: Catalogue Raissoné. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016), 463 pp.Hoogstede, Luuk, Sprong, Ron, Erdmann, Robert …
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity
Book Review| September 01 2017 Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity Bass, Marisa, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 222 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 532–533. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3988259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Lin…
Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Bass
Book Review| April 01 2019 Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity by Marisa Bass Bass, Marisa, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), 222 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 456–457. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7312645 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook…
Frans Floris (1519/20-1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance by Edward H. Wouk
Review Article| January 01 2020 Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance by Edward H. Wouk Wouk, Edward H., Frans Floris (1519/20–1570): Imagining a Northern Renaissance (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2018), 858 pp. Joseph Leo Koerner Joseph Leo Koerner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 161–162. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-7899832 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share …
The moment of the Fall: A challenge to ethical reasoning
Iconoclash in Northern Italy circa 1500
This article draws together two works created in late fifteenth-century Mantua. Although radically different in kind, they were borne from the same acts of violence: Andrea Mantegna’s Madonna of Victory and a responsum about Jewish religious law by Rabbi Joseph Colon. Mantegna’s altarpiece, painted to commemorate the bloody battle of Fornova as a Gonzaga victory, was paid for by Daniele Norsa; Norsa, a Jewish banker, was accused of destroying a p…
History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader
Initially in college and then throughout my career, the writings of the German philosopher and historian Hans Blumenberg (1920 – 1996) have been my secret talisman, warding off the tedium of routine academic labor by conjuring, with poetry and precision, higher powers of thought. I read him first for his fabulous, inimitable German style, which blurs the boundaries between historical survey, philosophical meditation, and creative fiction. Then I …
On Peter Weibel
He was always the youngest in the group. In 1966, the core participants in what he-with Valie Export-would later dub "Viennese Actionism" applied for government funding to attend the Destruction in Art Symposium in London. The group sent him, just twenty-two years old, to the ministry to argue their case. He remained their go-to spokesperson. On June 7, 1968, at the Kunst und Revolution event in Lecture Hall 1 of the University of Vienna, it was …
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