Landscape Then and Now

British Art Studies

Tim Barringer¹ 

[1] Yale University;

关键词: Lisa Reihana;    landscape;    landscape painting;    contemporary art;    Thomas Cole;   

DOI  :  10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-10/tbarringer

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

DOI The aesthetics of landscape have always been finely calibrated in response to prevailing ideological concerns of the day. When eighteenth-century grand tourists embraced the Claudean picturesque—by purchasing old master paintings in Italy, commissioning estate views from Richard Wilson, or sweeping away an English village to accommodate a new ornamental lake for the landscape garden—they engaged with a Whig politics that offered an imagery of stasis and permanence in a world marked by conflict and change. In a fast-secularizing age, Ruskin and the Victorians scanned the botanical minutiae of flora, the geology of mountains, and the meteorology of the skies in pursuit of religious meaning, eventually discovering only the “storm cloud of the nineteenth century”, a “dense manufacturing mist” that provided an allegory of environmental despoliation and moral collapse.

【 授权许可】

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