The Fifty-seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2008
Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds
Joseph Leo Koerner
April–May, 2008
East Building Auditorium
Lectures are held in the East Building Auditorium (eba) at 2:00 p.m. Lectures are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is not required.
April 6
The Human Condition
Enmity
April 20
Devilries
April 27
"Self" Portraiture
May 4
Epiphanies of Human Making
May 11
In Pursuit of the Ordinary
Joseph Leo Koerner is professor of history of art and architecture at Harvard University. He received his PhD in the history of art from the University of California–Berkeley; an MA in English literature from Cambridge University; and an undergraduate degree in history, the arts, and letters from Yale University. He has held professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art; Cambridge University; University College, London; and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt. He was Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship, as well as fellowships from Cambridge University, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst.
Koerner’s books include The Reformation of the Image (2004), which won the Ace/Mercers’ International Book Award; The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993), which received the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award; Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign (coauthored with Rainer Crone, 1991); and Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (1990), which won the Jan Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. He has written articles about Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans Baldung Grien, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Francesco Clemente, among others. He has curated exhibitions at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Harvard University Art Museums, and the Österreichische Galerie, and he has written and presented arts documentaries on northern Renaissance art and on Vienna for BBC television. Koerner has served on advisory committees for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Frick Collection, the Warburg Institute, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. His many honors and awards include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established by the National Gallery of Art's Board of Trustees in 1949 "to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts."