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• A digital Renaissance through art historical perspective: provides answers through the lens of... more • A digital Renaissance through art historical perspective: provides answers through the lens of 2,500 years of art history

• Features 11 chapters packed with compelling examples from art history

• Encourages readers to reconsider their perceptions of digital imagery

What is the relationship between the Holy Trinity and social media? How do hashtags influence us? Why are we so inclined to use filters? Why do we treat digital images differently than analogue ones? Art history offers a beginning of answers. Instagrammable explores the paradox of looking without seeing and seeing without looking. Koenraad Jonckheere examines trust in and distrust of images, drawing on 2,500 years of thinking about visual art. In eleven chapters, he examines the world of digital images through numerous intriguing examples from art history.

L'arte non è soltanto un'esperienza estetica. È anche uno strumento della politica, dell'economia... more L'arte non è soltanto un'esperienza estetica. È anche uno strumento della politica, dell'economia e della religione. Catalizzatore di rivoluzioni, laboratorio di sperimentazioni e nuove tecnologie, l'arte è formata da tutti gli impulsi di un'epoca fino a divenirne lo specchio materiale e spirituale. Come si è evoluta l'arte in 2.500 anni? Cosa lega la ricerca artistica rinascimentale nell'uomo ideale a un quadrato nero su una tela bianca? Perché sul mercato dell'arte una lattina di Merda d'artista vale più di un bel paesaggio seicentesco? Questo libro ripercorre la storia delle arti visive nell'Europa occidentale dall'antichità al modernismo. In cinque capitoli, il libro offre una visione diversa della storia dell'arte. Infatti, a differenza delle solite storie dell'arte, l'attenzione non è tanto concentrata su una successione di mirabili figure che hanno codificato i canoni dell'arte occidentale, ma su una complessa interazione di ingegno e immaginazione umana e di circostanze storiche in rapido cambiamento.

Kunst is zoveel meer dan een esthetische ervaring of een intrigerend concept. Het is ook een inst... more Kunst is zoveel meer dan een esthetische ervaring of een intrigerend concept. Het is ook een instrument van politiek en religie, een katalysator van revoluties, een trigger van extreme reacties, een laboratorium voor nieuwe technologieën. Kunst is de blauwdruk van een tijdperk, de drager van ongrijpbare betekenis. Kunst vertegenwoordigt fabelachtige bedragen maar ook een zee van ontroering.

Hoe is kunst in 2.500 jaar tijd geëvolueerd van het streven naar de voorstelling van de ideale mens tot een zwart vierkant op een wit doek? Waarom is een blikje Merda d’artista op de kunstmarktmeer waard dan een prachtig zeventiende-eeuws landschap?

Dit boek schetst het verhaal van de beeldende kunsten in West-Europa van de oudheid tot het modernisme in vijf hoofdstukken, telkens vanuit een andere invalshoek. Anders dan gebruikelijk ligt de nadruk daarbij niet zozeer op een opeenvolging van markante figuren die de bakens van de westerse kunst hebben verzet, maar op een complex samenspel van menselijk vernuft en verbeelding en van snel veranderende historische omstandigheden.

A New History of Western Art, 2022

A New History of Western Art deconstructs and demystifies the long history of art in Europe to re... more A New History of Western Art deconstructs and demystifies the long history of art in Europe to reveal how and why certain works of art become iconic and enduring in their appeal.

How has art evolved from the pursuit of the ‘ideal’ human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape?

By taking art for what it actually is – a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas – this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art.

Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time.

Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history.

... Record Details. Record ID, 811001. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Koenraad Jonckheere [... more ... Record Details. Record ID, 811001. Record Type, journalArticle. Author, Koenraad Jonckheere [802000650643] - Ghent University Koenraad.Jonckheere@UGent.be. Title, Two drawings by Peter Paul Rubens after Adriaen Thomasz. Key. Publication Status, published. ...

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online

In this paper, I argue that the early modern intellectual culture in Early Modern Europe was basi... more In this paper, I argue that the early modern intellectual culture in Early Modern Europe was basically a ‘culture of quaestio’ in which the ‘question’ played a fundamental role as an educational tool, a intellectual method and - as a consequence - as a line of reasoning. Using Peter Paul Rubens’s Double portrait of Seneca and Nero and Pieter Aertsen’s Jesus in the House of Mary and Martha as prime examples, I’ll argue that certain works of art – with artistic ambition – were conceived as quaestiones disputatae rather than self-confirmatory narratives, fully in line with the intellectual/pedagogical principles of quaestiones in the early modern Low Countries.

BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 2016

Brussels etc. 2012). 5 Marcus Van Vaernewijck, Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en v... more Brussels etc. 2012). 5 Marcus Van Vaernewijck, Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en voornamelijk in Ghendt 1566-1568, Ferdinand Vanderhaeghen (ed.) (5 vols.; Gent 1872-1881) i, 109-110. 'Ja, die schilderien an mueren ende in glaesveinsters en waren niet vrij, zij werden uutghescrapt bijsonder die ooghen ende aengezichten, ende die glaesveinsters met steenen duerworpen [...]'. 6 Van Vaernewijck, Van die beroerlicke tijden, i, 99, 'een openbaer plaghe Gods, die niemant resisteren en can.'

Simiolus Netherlands Quarterly For the History of Art, 2011

... modern times. Even though catalogues and the ac-companying advertisements had only been int... more ... modern times. Even though catalogues and the ac-companying advertisements had only been introduced ... collectors whose judgment was not yet good enough to discern true from false (“gen ... He solicited several “common folk” whom he persuaded to hang his bad paintings ...

Master Drawings, 2006

Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets, 2000

Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, 2004

An event took place in Amsterdam on 26 July 1713 that sent wealthy art collectors into transports... more An event took place in Amsterdam on 26 July 1713 that sent wealthy art collectors into transports of delight, for on that day the paintings from the collection of William III (1650-1702) in Het Loo Palace were auctioned in the Oudezijds Herenlogement. What makes this public sale of ...