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Aspiring to the Landscape - On Painting and the Subject of Nature (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition) Loot Price: R1,483
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Aspiring to the Landscape - On Painting and the Subject of Nature (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Petra Halkes

Aspiring to the Landscape - On Painting and the Subject of Nature (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)

Petra Halkes

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The idea of nature as a cultural construction has been discussed extensively in postmodern theory. Less attention, however, has been paid to the underlying motivations shaping the ideologies of nature, in particular the desire to submit to some larger order outside of oneself. Aspiring to the Landscape examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art. Four installations of large-scale paintings by Canadian artists Eleanor Bond, Susan Feindel, Stephen Hutchings, and Wanda Koop are the focus of Petra Halkes's study. The works vary widely in style and iconography but are drawn together by the way they invite a reflection on the troubled relationship between culture and nature and our contradictory and simultaneous longing to conquer and to succumb to nature. It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: February 2006
First published: February 2006
Authors: Petra Halkes
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages: 270
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-3894-4
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
LSN: 0-8020-3894-8
Barcode: 9780802038944

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