February 2012
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Gerry Badger on paiting and photography
A painted portrait by, say, Holbein or Rembrandt, is an extremely complex artefact, part icon, part representation, part symbol, part antique. In viewing a Holbein or a Rembrandt “in the flesh,” so to speak, we are looking both at an image and an object dating from the time it was made, and a complicated cultural talisman that subtends a multiplicity of interconnected ...
Donald W. Meinig on landscape
“Landscape is related to, but not identical with, nature. Nature is a part of every landscape, but is no more than a part of any landscape which has felt the impact of man. In this view landscape is always inclusive of man and nature, rather than a way of distinguishing, or at least emphasizing, nature, as is still not uncommon in some fields, such as art and earth science. Indeed, the idea...
JEFF BROUWS: “It Don’t Exist – The Impact of... →
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