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Caspar David Friedrich
Joseph Leo Koerner
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Description for Caspar David Friedrich
Paperback. Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. This title offers a comprehensive account of this most fascinating of nineteenth-century masters. Num Pages: 364 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, 68 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 654.
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not what he sees before him, but what he sees within him. Yet in their awesome power to capture the individuality of visible forms Friedrich's pictures also accept and express the irredeemable otherness of Nature. Winner of the 1992 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art, this compelling and highly original book is now made ... Read more
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not what he sees before him, but what he sees within him. Yet in their awesome power to capture the individuality of visible forms Friedrich's pictures also accept and express the irredeemable otherness of Nature. Winner of the 1992 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art, this compelling and highly original book is now made ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861894397
SKU
V9781861894397
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About Joseph Leo Koerner
Joseph Leo Koerner is Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993) and Reformation of the Image (Reaktion, 2004).
Reviews for Caspar David Friedrich
There's a haunting coda to Koerner's scholarly analysis of the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, and his place in art history ... This has many reproductions more true to Friedrich's winter colouring than I've seen before. The Guardian Provides insights not only into the nature of Friedrich's art, but also into the whole predicament of art in the early nineteenth ... Read more