| Research Abstract |
The researches on Caspar David Friedrich, a painter of the German Romanticism were made mostly in museums and libraries in Dresden and other institutions in Germany and Russia during the academic year 2005-2007 to analyze artist's world-view (Weltanschauung) and the transformation of modern visuality reflected in his paintings. The issue on historical receptions is mainly examined through the researches into the German Centennial Exhibition in 1906, where Friedrich's rediscovery was made under the power politics of nationalistic movement. The continuity of German Romanticism into the 20^<th> century is pointed out for its “sublimity", “irony" and “social commitment" which also are the key factors in German contemporary art as in Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer.
Main research results are as follows:1. The publishing of C. D. Friedrich, View from Artist's Studio: Visuality and Thought of the Modernity, Sangensha, Tokyo, 2007. (Chapters:(1) View from Artist's Studio, (2) Friedrich's “Abstraction", (3) Landscapes of Ruegen-Discourse on Subjectivity and Nature, (4) Northern Landscape-Its Topography and the Identity Problem, (5) Aesthetics of Contemplation to New Aesthetics, (6) German Centennial Exhibition, (7) Melancholy and Romantic Irony-From Friedrich to Contemporary German Art).2.The translation and review of C. G. Carus and C. D. Friedrich, Theories on Landscape Paintings of German Romanticism, Sangensha, Tokyo, 2006. 3. Organizing a symposium and a lecture relating “German Romanticism in Contemporary" with a collaborating researcher, Prof. Dr. Hans Dickel, Erlangen-Nuernberg University in the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and the National Art Center, Tokyo in September 21, 24, 2007.
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