Imbued with a pulsating energy that emanates from the sun, Claude Lorrain's landscape draws on the interplay of light and darkness to effect a 'living whole' and evoke the symbolic.
In a life-long conversation with Lorrain - recorded in texts as diverse as 'Amor as Landscape Painter', Faust , and the Doctrine of Colours - Goethe conducts an inquiry into the dialectics of nature and art, imitation and invention, subject and object.
Goethe seeks to comprehend Lorrain by reenact.
Legenda Poetry, painting, park: goethe and claude lorrain, hardcover/franz r. kempf
