Download or read book Caspar David Friedrich written by Nina Amstutz and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory look at how the mature work of Caspar David Friedrich engaged with concurrent developments in natural science and philosophy Best known for his atmospheric landscapes featuring contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies and morning mists, Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) came of age alongside a German Romantic philosophical movement that saw nature as an organic and interconnected whole. The naturalists in his circle believed that observations about the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms could lead to conclusions about human life. Many of Friedrich’s often-overlooked later paintings reflect his engagement with these philosophical ideas through a focus on isolated shrubs, trees, and rocks. Others revisit earlier compositions or iconographic motifs but subtly metamorphose the previously distinct human figures into the natural landscape. In this revelatory book, Nina Amstutz combines fresh visual analysis with broad interdisciplinary research to investigate the intersection of landscape painting, self-exploration, and the life sciences in Friedrich’s mature work. Drawing connections between the artist’s anthropomorphic landscape forms and contemporary discussions of biology, anatomy, morphology, death, and decomposition, Amstutz brings Friedrich’s work into the larger discourse surrounding art, nature, and life in the 19th century.
Download or read book Environmental Thought in the Graeco Roman World written by Orietta Dora Cordovana and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate that has arisen around the concept of the Anthropocene forms the basis of this book. It investigates certain forms of environmental interrelation and 'ecological' sensitivity in the Graeco-Roman world. The notions of environmental depletion, exploitation and loss of plant species, and the ancients' knowledge of species diversity are the main cores of the research. The aim is to interrogate historical sources and diverse evidence and to analyse political and socioeconomic structures, according to a reading focused on possible antecedents, cultural prodromes, alignments of thought or divergencies, with respect to major modern environmental problems and current ecological conceptualisations. As a result, 'sustainable' behaviour, 'biodiversity' and its practical uses can also be identified in ancient societies. In the context of environmental studies, this contribution is placed from the perspective of a historian of antiquity, with the aim of outlining the forma mentis and praxis of the ancients with respect to specific environmental issues. Ancient civilizations always provided ad hoc solutions for specific emergencies, but never developed a comprehensive ecological culture of environmental protection as in modernity.
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Download or read book Weltensammeln written by Elisabeth Décultot and published by Wallstein Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Materialitätsgeschichte der Aufklärung anhand der Sammelpraxis von Vater und Sohn Forster. Weltumsegler, im Feld forschende Naturhistoriker und Ethnologen, Gelehrte - Johann Reinhold (1729-1798) und sein Sohn Georg Forster (1754-1794) trugen grundlegend zur Erschließung außereuropäischer Welten bei. Durch Sammeln, Ordnen, Zeigen, Zeichnen, Transportieren und Präparieren sowie durch Schreiben und Übersetzen haben sie einen erheblichen Anteil an dem Prozess genommen, der die zusammen mit James Cook erkundeten Räume in Wissensgegenstände verwandelte. Insofern waren die Forsters Produzenten: Das arkadische O-Tahiti und die Freundschaftlichen Inseln oder die düsteren Gestade - der Charlotten-Sund und die verschneite Ödnis Feuerlands - sind zum einen tatsächlich in Augenschein genommene Orte, zum anderen sind es Gegenstände und Ergebnisse von Gestaltungsprojekten. Der vorliegende Band erschließt das Geflecht der Arbeitsfelder von Johann Reinhold und Georg Forster. In den Blick genommen werden die Materialitätsgeschichte der Aufklärung im Bereich der Sammlungs- und Objektpraxis sowie die sammlungsrelevanten Infrastrukturen und Institutionen des aufgeklärten Wissens.
Download or read book Library of Medicinal Plants written by Henry Guinness De Laszlo and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of de Laszlo's private library of books written on phytotherapy from 1700 forward.
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum 1807 1871 written by Boston Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
