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Please view the photographs for Conditions: Early Edition. Caspar Daid Friedrich; by Helmut Borsch-Supan; with 120 illustrations, 57 in colour; Thames and Hudson, London . First English translation. Printed and bound in West Germany. From the blurb Friedrich has come to be recognized in recent years as a giant of the Romantic movement and one of the great figures of nineteenth-century art. His works have an extraordinary, haunting quality which is the product of an elaborate and consistent system of symbolism. The elements of space which make up a traditional landscape painting the impression of high and low, near and far, light and dark, summer and winter are all used symbolically. Every vast seascape, mountain peak, or blasted tree expresses a truth about human life and the Christian hope for the life to come. Helmut Borsch-Supan is the leading interpreter of Friedrich’s symbolism, and has played a major part in establishing the artist’s reputation after many years of neglect. Friedrich’s message is never obvious; he is not a painter of allegory and it is an indefinable sense of mystery, as well as a profoundly emotional response to nature, which make him perhaps the truest Romantic among landscape painters. This large format book, 184 pages, is in good condition in a dust jacket.  All colour illustrations are tipped-in and are of the finest quality, typical of this publisher.