Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, Second Edition Joseph Leo Koerner

‘Theres a haunting coda to Koerners scholarly analysis of the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, and his place in art history . . . This has many reproductions more true to Friedrichs winter colouring than Ive seen before.’ — The Guardian

‘Provides insights not only into the nature of Friedrichs art, but also into the whole predicament of art in the early nineteenth century . . . It is a book that should be read by all who have an interest in the art of the period.’ — Burlington Magazine

‘This 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.’ — The Independent

‘This masterly book on what must be one of the most clear and deliberate - and thus most intelligible - bodies of work to have been produced ... is impressively contextual, as well as being minutely forensic . . . Koerner uses the pictures to think about subjectivity and the self in a very twentieth-century way.’ — TLS

‘One of the best books about the work of a single artist that I have read for a long, long time. It seems to me to have everything.’ — Frank Whitford, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4