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Caspar David Friedrich - Nature and the Self (Hardcover)
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Caspar David Friedrich - Nature and the Self (Hardcover)
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A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich
engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and
philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring
contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning
mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) came of age alongside a
German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an
organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle
believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral
kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of
Friedrich's often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement
with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs,
trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or
iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct
human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book,
Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad
interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of
landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in
Friedrich's mature work. Drawing connections between the artist's
anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of
biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz
brings Friedrich's work into the larger discourse surrounding art,
nature, and life in the 19th century.
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