Books by Christopher P. Heuer
“Into the White is essentially saying that the experience of Arctic exploration, into the icy wilderness, was profoundly disorienting and destabilising and permanently challenged any assumptions we may have had about the efficacy of the subject’s attempt to grasp the object through representational regimes. This is a very original book.” Read more...
The best books on Northern Renaissance
Christopher S. Wood, Art Historians, Critics & Curator
Interviews where books by Christopher P. Heuer were recommended
-
1
The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany
by Michael Baxandall -
2
The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550
by David Landau & Peter Parshall -
3
The Art of Arts
by Anita Albus -
4
Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
5
Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image
by Christopher P. Heuer
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The best books on Northern Renaissance, recommended by Christopher S. Wood
The Renaissance had quite distinct manifestations in Northern Europe and Italy: if the Southern Renaissance was all about abundance and positivity, the dominant theme of the Northern Renaissance was negativity, says New York University Professor Christopher S. Wood. He recommends what to read to learn more about the Northern Renaissance, from Bosch’s fantasy bestiary of the demonic and the grotesque, to Bruegel’s comic and badly proportioned peasants.
