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The Cultivated Landscape : An Exploration of Art and Agriculture - Craig Pearson
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The Cultivated Landscape

An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

By: Craig Pearson, Judith Nasby

Hardcover | 15 October 2008

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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.
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"The impact of art in this book to visually enhance the documented history of agriculture is so vivid that I was able to imagine the sense of place that landscapes that no longer exist, must have portrayed to those who lived and worked within them. While there are certainly many other books on the history of agriculture, no other that I have ever read has interwoven the topic with visual art in such an evocative manner. I found this book utterly fascinating and on occasions it evokes powerful parallels with Simon Sharma's brilliant Landscape and Memory or even Kenneth Clark's Civilization." Richard Bawden, Systemic Development Instiute, Sydney, Australia

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