Landscape and Ideology

Landscape and Ideology
Author: Ann Bermingham
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1986
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0520066235

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In this interdisciplinary study, Ann Bermingham explores the complex, ambiguous, and often contradictory relationship between English landscape painting and the socio-economic changes that accompanied enclosure and the Industrial Revolution.

Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective

Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective
Author: Alan R. H. Baker,Gideon Biger
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521024706

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The issues raised by landscapes and their meanings are fundamental not only to historical geography but to any humanistic study, and render the geographical study of landscapes of interest to scholars in many disciplines.

Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia
Author: K. Valentine Cadieux,Laura Taylor
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781136193842

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This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal Express, technologically mediated communications, global supply chains, and the anonymity of the global marketplace—and where many of the central features of exurbia—very low-density residential land use, monster homes, and conversion of forested or rural land for housing—contribute to the very problems that the social and environmental aesthetic of exurbia attempts to avoid. The volume shows how this contradiction—to live in the green landscape, and to protect the green landscape from urbanization—gets caught up and represented in the ideology of nature, and how this ideology, in turn, constitutes and is constituted by the landscapes being urbanized.

Nature and Ideology

Nature and Ideology
Author: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publsiher: Dumbarton Oaks
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1997
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0884022463

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The essays in this volume explore the broad range of ideas about nature reflected in twentieth-century concepts of natural gardens and their ideological implications. They also investigate garden designers' use of earlier ideas of natural gardens and their relationship to the rich model that nature offers.

The Landscape of Stalinism

The Landscape of Stalinism
Author: Evgeny Dobrenko,Eric Naiman
Publsiher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780295801179

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This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. At the time, the iconoclasm of the immediate postrevolutionary years had given way to nation building and a conscious attempt to create a new Soviet �culture.� In painting, architecture, literature, cinema, and song, images of landscape were enlisted to help mold the masses into joyful, hardworking citizens of a state with a radiant, utopian future -- all under the fatherly guidance of Joseph Stalin. From backgrounds in history, art history, literary studies, and philosophy, the contributors show how Soviet space was sanctified, coded, and �sold� as an ideological product. They explore the ways in which producers of various art forms used space to express what Katerina Clark calls �a cartography of power� -- an organization of the entire country into �a hierarchy of spheres of relative sacredness,� with Moscow at the center. The theme of center versus periphery figures prominently in many of the essays, and the periphery is shown often to be paradoxically central. Examining representations of space in objects as diverse as postage stamps, a hikers� magazine, advertisements, and the Soviet musical, the authors show how cultural producers attempted to naturalize ideological space, to make it an unquestioned part of the worldview. Whether focusing on the new or the centuries-old, whether exploring a built cityscape, a film documentary, or the painting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin, the authors offer a consistently fascinating journey through the landscape of the Soviet ideological imagination. Not all features of Soviet space were entirely novel, and several of the essayists assert continuities with the prerevolutionary past. One example is the importance of the mother image in mass songs of the Stalin period; another is the "boundless longing" inspired in the Russian character by the burden of living amid vast empty spaces. But whether focusing on the new or the centuries-old, whether exploring a built cityscape, a film documentary, or the painting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin, the authors offer a consistently fascinating journey through the landscape of the Soviet ideological imagination.

Grieg

Grieg
Author: Daniel M. Grimley
Publsiher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1843832100

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This text examines the role which music and landscape played in the formation of Norwegian cultural identity in the 19th century, and the function that landscape has performed in Edvard Grieg's work. Grieg's work presents several perspectives on the relationships between music, landscape and identity.

Landscape and Power Second Edition

Landscape and Power  Second Edition
Author: William John Thomas Mitchell,W. J. T. Mitchell
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2002-04-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226532054

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This text considers landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This edition adds a new preface and five new essays.

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities

Political Landscapes of Capital Cities
Author: Jessica Joyce Christie,Jelena Bogdanovic,Eulogio Guzmán
Publsiher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2016-08-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781607324690

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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put forth in Adam T. Smith’s The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities to expose the intimate associations between human-made environments and the natural landscape that accommodate the sociopolitical needs of governmental authority. Political Landscapes of Capital Cities blends the historical, political, and cultural narratives of capital cities such as Bangkok, Cusco, Rome, and Tehran with a careful visual analysis, hinging on the methodological tools of not only architectural and urban design but also cultural, historiographical, and anthropological studies. The collection provides further ways to conceive of how processes of urbanization, monumentalization, ritualization, naturalization, and unification affected capitals differently without losing grasp of local distinctive architectural and spatial features. The essays also articulate the many complex political and ideological agendas of a diverse set of sovereign entities that planned, constructed, displayed, and performed their societal ideals in the spaces of their capitals, ultimately confirming that political authority is profoundly spatial. Contributors: Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, Talinn Grigor, Eulogio Guzmán, Gregor Kalas, Stephanie Pilat, Melody Rod-ari, Anne Parmly Toxey, Alexei Vranich