xiv, 217 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
文字
text
無媒介
unmediated
成冊
volume
附註
Includes bibliographical references and index
Liberty on the lagoon: Venetian images of the Red Sea, 1480-1530 -- Pilgrimage and the liminal landscape in early modern Netherlandish art -- Framing North and South in the Fraser Gallery: Charles Fraser's Antebellum landscape paintings -- Grant Wood's agrarian landscapes: myth, memory, and control -- The landscape as protagonist: context and meaning in Jim Draper's paintings of Florida -- Silent screens and new eyes: the landscape of war -- Memory in the displaced landscape: narratives of national identity at the Irish Hunger Memorial -- Landscape claimed and reclaimed in Botswana
The physical landscape has been appropriated by artists throughout temporal and spatial history to represent (or present) political, social, and national identities. Artists have long imbued the landscape with personal and public ideologies. Indeed, landscapes can be more than simple representations of scenic beauty, when artists use the genre to convey or reflect upon various political and social concerns important in different periods. This collection of essays brings together the perspectives of scholars from a variety of backgrounds. Subjects range from Venetian Renaissance waterscapes to the rolling farm hills of Grant Wood, and from native Botswana imagery to ecosensitive Florida portraits. These examinations of landscapes consider the rich ideology and iconography that define and redefine peoples and places.-- Publisher's description
