
The Cultivated Landscape
An Exploration of Art and Agriculture
McGill-Queen's University Press
Will be published approx. on 11. August 2008
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-0-7735-3246-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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. The Cultivated Landscape is utterly fascinating and on occasion evokes powerful parallels with Simon Schama's brilliant Landscape and Memory or even Kenneth Clark's Civilization." Richard Bawden, Systemic Development Institute, Sydney Australia "A broad, interesting, and well-written survey of farming practices from the Middle Ages to the present." Choice MagazineMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
98 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
890 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-3246-5 (9780773532465)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

E-Book
08/2008
MQUP
€76.49
Available for download

E-Book
08/2008
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€41.99
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Persons
Craig Pearson is presidential advisor on international programs and professor of agricultural policy, the University of Guelph. He has been dean, Ontario Agricultural College, chief scientist with the Bureau of Rural Sciences in the Australian government,
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements 1.Custodians of the Landscape in Europe; 2. New World Expansion; 3. Production and Productivity; 4. Productivity to Excess; 5. Sustainability; 6. Millennium Accounting; 7. Connecting the Future Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Information on Illustrations; About the Authors; Index