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The Cultivated LandscapeAn Exploration of Art and Agriculture |
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This unique history of agriculture as illustrated in art since the Middle Ages illuminates the complex issues facing agriculture today.
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.
Details
304 Pages, 6.5 x 9.25
98 colour illustrations
ISBN 9780773532465
August 2008
Formats: Cloth, eBook
"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 Magazine
http://mqup.typepad.com/mcgill_queens_university_/2008/11/montreal-review-of-books-covers-the-cultivated-landscape-by-craig-pearson-and-judith-nasby.html
"A broad, interesting, and well-written survey of farming practices from the Middle Ages to the present." Choice Magazine
http://mqup.typepad.com/mcgill_queens_university_/2008/11/montreal-review-of-books-covers-the-cultivated-landscape-by-craig-pearson-and-judith-nasby.html
Judith Nasby is adjunct professor, fine art, University of Guelph, and the author of Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Myth and Reality and Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller. She is director and curator of the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre at the University of Guelph.
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, and past president of the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
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, and past president of the Canadian Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine.
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
ONE
Custodians of the Landscape in Europe 3
TWO
New World Expansion 30
THREE
Production and Productivity 69
FOUR
Productivity to Excess 102
FIVE
Sustainability 127
SIX
Millennium Accounting 165
SEVEN
Connecting the Future 195
Appendices 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 255
Information on Illustrations 273
About the Authors 289
Index 291
Acknowledgements ix
ONE
Custodians of the Landscape in Europe 3
TWO
New World Expansion 30
THREE
Production and Productivity 69
FOUR
Productivity to Excess 102
FIVE
Sustainability 127
SIX
Millennium Accounting 165
SEVEN
Connecting the Future 195
Appendices 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 255
Information on Illustrations 273
About the Authors 289
Index 291
