The Cultivated Landscape
Subtitle: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: February 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780773532465
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes; Folk & Outsider Art; History - General; Art; Art & Art Instruction
Description: By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. "The Cultivated Landscape" uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present. Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impact on landscape, and how landscape has been portrayed historically in art. They also offer a wider discussion on the role that science and economics have played in agricultural development and the parallels to changes in art form. "The Cultivated Landscape" ends with a discussion of the complex issues facing agriculture today, the need for greater connectivity between agriculture and our environment, and options for the future.