Winter by Adam Gopnik
Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General, History, Essays, Literary Collections, Social History, Nature, Seasons
ISBN: 9781780874449
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
In Caspar David Friedrich’s 1819 Monastery Graveyard in the Snow (Cloister Cemetery in the Snow), winter scenes recall ancient ones — snow opens the door unto a lost, mystical, medieval past. (Winter is haunting, but it’s also healing.)
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The Romantic image of the small French soldier lost in the vast northern winter, shown in Friedrich’s 1812 painting The Chasseur in the Forest, is a reproach to all the encyclopedic certainties of the Enlightenment.
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