This book explores the relationship between images and language and probes the question of whether images, precisely where they intersect with the verbal realm, open up new insights that cannot easily be put into words. Recently, pictures have increasingly been understood as a medium of expression i[...]
Goethe als Sammler künstlerischen Anschauungsmaterials Goethes graphische Sammlung ist die Grundlage für eine anschauliche Kunstgeschichte. Zusammen mit seinen kunsttheoretischen Schriften gelingt eine ganzheitliche Kunstbetrachtung, die Goethe am Herzen lag. "Nicht von der Kunst in abstrac[...]
"A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand," wrote Caspar David Friedrich, "not seek to disguise itself as Nature." One of his generation's most popular painters, Friedrich imagined landscapes of powerful beauty and spirituality from within the confines of his studios. This breathtakin[...]