The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

by Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773532463
• ISBN13: 9780773532465
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.3"