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Thames & Hudson Ltd - Caspar David Friedrich - Hardcover
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Description: Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth the most thorough Friedrich retrospective in many years. Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional patterns of representation and paved new ways of both experiencing and reflecting on the ambivalent relationship between humankind and nature. Accompanying the most comprehensive Friedrich retrospective in many years this catalogue re - examines the artist's groundbreaking work in light of the urgent challenges in a time of climate crisis and postcolonial reflection. It centres on more than sixty paintings among them many major iconic works and about 100 drawings. Selected works by Friedrich's colleagues notably August Heinrich Georg Friedrich Kersting Ernst Ferdinand Oehme and Johann Alexander Thiele are also featured. The second part of the book focuses on the contemporary reception of his work. In contributions ranging from video and photography to installations some twenty artists working across a variety of genres and media explore the Romantic era its attitude to nature and the art of Caspar David Friedrich. The participants include Alex Grein Swaantje G ntzel Jochen Hein Johanna Karlsson Hiroyuki Masuyama Loudmila Milanova Mariele Neudecker Ulrike Rosenbach Susan Schuppli Santeri Tuori and Kehinde Wiley.
Title: Caspar David Friedrich
Brand: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500028339
Pages: 496 Pages, 400 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: Published to mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth the most thorough Friedrich retrospective in many years. Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional patterns of representation and paved new ways of both experiencing and reflecting on the ambivalent relationship between humankind and nature. Accompanying the most comprehensive Friedrich retrospective in many years this catalogue re - examines the artist's groundbreaking work in light of the urgent challenges in a time of climate crisis and postcolonial reflection. It centres on more than sixty paintings among them many major iconic works and about 100 drawings. Selected works by Friedrich's colleagues notably August Heinrich Georg Friedrich Kersting Ernst Ferdinand Oehme and Johann Alexander Thiele are also featured. The second part of the book focuses on the contemporary reception of his work. In contributions ranging from video and photography to installations some twenty artists working across a variety of genres and media explore the Romantic era its attitude to nature and the art of Caspar David Friedrich. The participants include Alex Grein Swaantje G ntzel Jochen Hein Johanna Karlsson Hiroyuki Masuyama Loudmila Milanova Mariele Neudecker Ulrike Rosenbach Susan Schuppli Santeri Tuori and Kehinde Wiley.
Title: Caspar David Friedrich
Brand: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500028339
Pages: 496 Pages, 400 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 9/17/2024
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
