Due to unforeseen circumstances\, this event is cancelled until further notice.
The Moment of
the Fall: Some Unreasonable Solutions
A lecture by Joseph Leo Koerner<
br />Presented as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series
Thi s event is free and open to the public.
The Fall of Adam and Eve test ed Renaissance artists not only through the challenge posed by the nude\, b ut also because of the subject’s temporal demand: the time-bound lapse from innocence to guilt. Restricted to the static medium of images\, artists en gineered artworks that tangled “before” and “after” into a single pregnant moment. While contrary to the principles of reason and cause\, these necess ary and sometimes strange and ingenious solutions nonetheless depended on r easoning both aesthetic and ethical. Condensing years of teaching Adam and Eve to undergraduates in a general studies curriculum\, Koerner's lecture w ill explore works by Hieronymus Bosch\, Albrecht Dürer\, Hans Baldung Grien \, and others as powerful and sometimes dangerous prompts for ethical—and u nethical—reasoning on the part of us\, their viewers.
Joseph Leo Koerner is the Thomas Professor of History of Art and Senior F ellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He is author\, most recently\, of Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life. His feature film The Burning Child\, completed in 2018\, conc erns homemaking in Vienna from 1900 until the present.
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