Year: 2022, 2022
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Allwood Portillo, Mark, Thesis advisor (ths): Bordo, Jonathan, Degree committee member (dgc): Cammaer, Gerda, Degree committee member (dgc): Junyk, Ihor, Degree committee member (dgc): Cazorla Sánchez, Antonio, Degree committee member (dgc): Fenner, Angelica, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>From Altdorfer and Poussin to Cézanne, Monet and to the Group of Seven, landscape has been a focal point of artistic inspiration for most of what we think of as modern art history. In contemporary times the concept and representation of landscape has shifted from visions of an idealized and exalted place to notions of the landscape as a ruins and site of ecological disaster. Because of… more Full Text: LANDSCAPE AND ITS DISCONTENTS – ART AND RUINS, A CRITICAL TOPOGRAPHY IN WORD AND IMAGE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and …
