Writing over image: Caspar David Friedrich’s "Monk facing the sea" critical case
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Friedrich, Romanticism, Kleist, Brentano, art, critic, monk.
Abstract
This article presents the analysis of one of the contemporary critiques made to Monk facing the sea (1810) by Caspar David Friedrich. They are “Empfindugen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft”, written by Clemens Brentano with Achim von Arnim, modified and published in Berliner Abendbläter by Heinrich von Kleist. The goals are, on the one hand, to find and expose a relationship between this critical-dramatic exercise and the subsequent criticism of the work and how it is linked in it Monk facing the sea with contemporary art; and on the other, to establish a link between the dramatized form of this art criticism and the formal and semantic novelties present in the canvas of the German painter.Downloads
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2018-12-11
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García Vázquez M. (2018). Writing over image: Caspar David Friedrich’s "Monk facing the sea" critical case. Escritura e Imagen, 14, 279-290. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESIM.62777
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