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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815222903321

Autore

Koerner Joseph Leo

Titolo

Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of landscape / / Joseph Leo Koerner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion, 2009

ISBN

1-282-79615-1

9786612796159

1-86189-750-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Disciplina

759.3

Soggetti

Landscapes in art

Romanticism in art - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Part 1: Romanticizing the World; I: From the Dresden Heath; 2: The Subject of Landscape; 3: Romanticism; Part II: Art as Religion; 4: The Non-Contemporaneity of the Contemporary; 5: Sentimentalism; 6: Friedrich's System; 7: Symbol and Allegory; 8: The End of Iconography; Part III: The Halted Traveller; 9: Entering the Wood; 10: Theomimesis; 11: Reflection; 12: Déjà vu; Afterword; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europe's first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radical