num_pages: 256
description: Caspar David Friedrich (1774â€“1840) is heralded as the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, and Europeâ€s first truly modern artist. His mysterious and melancholy landscapes, often peopled with lonely wanderers, are experiments in a radically subjective artistic perspectiveâ€”one in which, as Freidrich wrote, the painter depicts not â€œwhat he sees before him, but what he sees within him.â€ This vulnerability of the individual when confronted with nature became one of the key tenets of the Romantic aesthetic.             Now available in a compact, accessible format, this beautifully illustrated book is the most comprehensive account ever published in English of one of the most fascinating and influential nineteenth-century painters.             â€œThis is a model of interpretative art history, taking in a good deal of German Romantic philosophy, but founded always on the immediate experience of the picture. . . . It is rare to find a scholar so obviously in sympathy with his subject.â€â€” Independent
language: English
title: Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
titlecomplete: Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape
genres: Art History, Romanticism, Nonfiction, 19th Century, Germany, Art, Criticism, History
ratings_count: 58
publisher: Yale University Press