Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude Lorrain

Franz R. Kempf

Poetry, Painting, Park
Goethe and Claude Lorrain

Franz R. Kempf

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), German writer

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Claude Gellée, 'le Lorrain' (1600-82), French painter

Germanic Literatures 22

Legenda

7 January 2020 • 260pp

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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 reenacting him in words, in ekphrastic mode, as an experience and an idea. The inquiry remains open-ended for landscape is a paradox: the real, the spiritual, and the affective meet without merging. This aesthetic discovery and visualization of nature as landscape is consonant with the attempt to grasp the world and our place in it. The three sister arts of poetry, painting, and horticulture serve as mirrors for Goethe’s self-understanding as an artist, including his ambivalence vis-à-vis the English Garden as articulated, for instance, in the novel Elective Affinities.

Franz R. Kempf is Professor of German Studies at Bard College.

Reviews:

‘Few are the writers who have the competence truly to be interdisciplinary and Franz Kempf is one of them. In Poetry, Painting, Park (Legenda) he carefully lays out the complex intellectual links forged by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from his life-long considerations of Claude’s landscapes. Kempf fluently ranges over the consequences of Goethe’s encounter with Claude— literature and literary theory, painting and drawing, horticulture and garden design, philosophy, natural science and optics, reality and spirituality—to arrive at striking a double portrait.’ — Donald Lee, The Art Newspaper Blog Books of the Year, 25 December 2020
‘This long overdue task [of studying Goethe and Claude Lorrain] has been accomplished in a near exemplary monograph by Franz Kempf, in a finely produced volume that does elegant justice to its subject... It will doubtless become a standard work and will open up broad vistas for future research.’ — Jeremy Adler, The Art Newspaper 334, May 2021
‘Franz R. Kempf’s exciting volume titled Poetry, Painting, Park: Goethe and Claude Lorrain is about each of these forms of art and artists listed in the title, separately and taken together... Kempf really is convincing in his aims of guiding us through the densely interwoven patterns of influences around Goethe.’ — Zoltán Somhegyi, British Journal of Aesthetics 20 October 2021 (full text online)
‘Aufgrund seiner rhetorischen Anlage lädt das vorliegende Buch dazu ein, sich darin auf ähnliche Weise zu bewegen, wie wenn man durch eine Landschaft oder, besser noch: durch einen Park spaziert.’ — Karlheinz Lüdeking, Arbitrium 40.3, 2022, 333-37 (full text online)
‘La richesse du travail de Kempf consiste alors dans le refus d’analyser le rapport entre les deux hommes comme un simple rapport d’influence. [...] Cette audace interprétative est couplée à la précision d’un germaniste soucieux de faire droit à la singularité de chaque mot et qui refuse de se contenter de tracer à grands traits une théorie générale de l’ekphrasis.’ — Francis Haselden, Nouvelle revue d’esthétique 30, 2022, 151-54 (full text online)

Contents:

ix-ix	Acknowledgements Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.3	Cite
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x-x	Note On References and Translations Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.4	Cite
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xi-xii	List of Illustrations Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.5	Cite
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1-13	Introduction Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.6	Cite
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14-48	Chapter 1 Nature, Art, Experience, Idea: Exploring Goethe’s Aesthetics of Landscape Painting Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.7	Cite
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49-88	Chapter 2 the Poetry of Art Criticism: Goethe’s 1772 Review of Lorrain Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.8	Cite
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89-135	Chapter 3 Italy: Landscape As Nature and Art Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.9	Cite
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136-180	Chapter 4 Painting Into Poetry Into Park: Lorrain and Goethe As English Gardeners Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.10	Cite
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181-221	Chapter 5 Light – Eye – Colour: the Metamorphosis of Landscape Painting Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.11	Cite
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222-225	Appendix: Goethe’s Lorrain Collection Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.12	Cite
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226-241	References Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.13	Cite
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242-248	Index Franz R. Kempf doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0xx.14	Cite
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Poetry, Painting, ParkGoethe and Claude Lorrain

Franz R. Kempf

Poetry, Painting, Park
Goethe and Claude Lorrain