FAH355H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7-9: Moisturizer, Bulldozer, Michael Heizer
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Chapter seven: landscape and politics repr. refuge from the pressures of city, court and political life. Christian religion = celebrated experience of solitude and spiritual on pastoral retreats. Mutual dependency on each other: country fed the city idealized images and countryside made money from the city. Freezes history in a golden age (doesn"t show the hardships of people) -> shows an utopian vision. Chapter eight nature as picture or process. Turner -> focused on creating a realistic experience rather than fill it with facts. Makes a new development in the relationship between artist and natural world. No longer depicted as fixed, static now a site of constant movement and change and of growth and decay. Photographer photographs forms that reflect primal force of nature: sometimes shows history of landscape (historical landscape, not using landscape to depict human history. Wants everything to be depicted in accurate detail. Wanting to go beyond ownership boundaries and pov of real estate agent.
