A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany

"The artist should not only paint what he sees before him," claimed Caspar David Friedrich, "but also what he sees in himself." He should have "a dialogue with Nature". Friedrich's words encapsulate two central elements of the Romantic conception of landscape -- close observation of the natural world and the importance of the imagination.

• | Author: Matthew Hargraves, Rachel Sloan
• | Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781907372667
• | ISBN-10: 1907372660