Staring into the abyss of time

Stephanie O'Rourke

doi:10.1525/rep.2019.148.1.30

Staring into the abyss of time

Stephanie O'Rourke

School of Art History

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This essay examines the role of geological time in the work of the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich in the early nineteenth century. It foregrounds the challenges this model of time posed for the relationship between the human and the natural—a relationship usually considered central to Friedrich’s work—and for the perceptual powers of the viewing subject.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30-56
Number of pages	27
Journal	Representations
Volume	148
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2019.148.1.30
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2019

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Stephanie O'Rourke
- so38st-andrews.acuk
- School of Art History - Senior Lecturer in Art History
- St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity
- Centre for Energy Ethics
- Centre for Contemporary Art
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