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Caspar David Friedrich : the soul of nature / Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein ; with essays by Joseph Leo Koerner and Cordula Grewe.

Seidenstein, Joanna Sheers, (curator,, contributor., Added Author, Added Author). Koerner, Joseph Leo, (contributor). Grewe, Cordula, (contributor). Hokanson, Alison. Friederich and the soul of nature (Added Author). Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), (issuing body., Added Author).

Summary:

"Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) reimagined European landscape painting by portraying nature as a setting for profound spiritual and emotional encounters. Working in the vanguard of the German Romantic movement, which championed a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self, Friedrich developed pictorial subjects and strategies that emphasize the individuality, intimacy, open-endedness, and complexity of our responses to the natural world. The vision of the landscape that unfolds in his art--meditative, mysterious, and full of wonder--is still vital today.

Record details

ISBN: 9781588397898
ISBN: 1588397890
Physical Description: 295 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]
Distributor: New Haven ; Yale University Press
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This catalogue is published in conjunction with Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 8 through May 11, 2025"--Colophon.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-288) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Friedrich and the soul of nature / Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein -- Moment, memory, monument / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Material matters : Friedrich, drawing, and the pursuit of the ineffable / Joanna Sheers Seidenstein -- Friedrich in the United States / Alison Hokanson -- From image to icon : Friedrich's Romanticism and the afterlife of a wanderer / Cordula Grewe -- g Catalogue.