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