The Nine Letters on Landscape Painting - Written in the Years 1815-1824, With a Letter From Goethe by Way of Introduction (Paperback)

Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science.
Carus was inspired by and had contacts with the greatest German intellectuals of his day. Carus prefaced his work with a letter from his correspondence with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was his primary mentor in both science and art. His writings also reflect, however, the influence of the German natural philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, especially Schelling's notion of a world soul, and the writings of the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Carus played a role in the revolution in landscape painting taking place in Saxony around Caspar David Friedrich. The first edition appears here in English for the first time.

General

Imprint:	Getty Publications
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	December 2002
Authors:	Carus
Dimensions:	254 x 179 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-0-89236-674-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Romanticism Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Art techniques & materials > Art techniques & principles Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General Promotions
LSN:	0-89236-674-5
Barcode:	9780892366743

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