Vol. 108 No. 1, Fall 2009
In the current issue:
STARING INTO THE ABYSS OF TIME
by Stephanie O'Rourke
In this essay O'Rourke 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.