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Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century

Autor Margaret Birney Vickery
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2021
Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the 17th century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe. These seemingly disparate subjects are united by a shared concern for the pastoral middle ground; a traditionally productive landscape. By focusing an art-historical lens on pre-industrial productive systems and the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the pastoral landscape tradition, we can gain a better understanding of how to weave new approaches to productive infrastructure systems (such as power generation, water filtration and food production) into our contemporary landscapes. With rising demand for clean energy, clean water, and locally-grown food, this study offers a historical perspective on how such systems can be integrated into our suburban and urban areas. Vestigial elements of the pastoral tradition have long held aesthetic sway in our suburbs, cities and national parks, both in Britain and America. Now, as new energy and water related projects encroach on these spaces, remnants of the pastoral play a crucial role in convincing neighborhood residents, municipal leaders, and energy companies or water authorities of the benefits of a neighboring infrastructure. This book investigates the history of that tradition and highlights the advantages it brings as we re-imagine infrastructure in the 21st century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350216310
ISBN-10: 1350216313
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 45 color illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Major infrastructural projects (from rail links to data centers to wind farms) tend to arouse public controversy - this book sets these controversies in a broader historical context

Notă biografică

Margaret Birney Vickery is a lecturer in the History of Art and Architecture Department and the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Buildings for Bluestockings: The Architecture and Social History of Women's Colleges in Late Victorian England, and (Translations) Architecture/Art Works of Sigrid Miller Pollin.

Cuprins

Introduction: Infrastructure, Landscape and the Pastoral Paradigm: A Tale of Two Projects 1. Landscape Painting and the Productive Pastoral Tradition 2. The Eighteenth-Century English Landscape: The Classic Pastoral and its Productivity3. The Industrial Revolution and its Intrusion on the Landscape4. A Growing Divide: Landscape and Infrastructure in Victorian Britain5. Progress and Nature in the American Landscape6. Infrastructure and Landscape in Early-Twentieth-Century England and America7. Questioning the Infrastructural Paradigm in the late Twentieth Century8. Twenty-First-Century Power Generation: An Invitation to the Public9. Clean Water and Recreation: New Approaches to Water Treatment Plants10. Food, Community, and the Productive LandscapeConclusion: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First CenturyBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

In this original and timely book, Vickery establishes the continued and vital importance of art history in contemporary landscape and architectural design. Landscape and Infrastructure traces the roots and uncovers the significance of the productive activities and elements of pastoral traditions in art and designed landscapes, clearly documenting the persistent and sometimes difficult relationship of aesthetics and production in Western art. Art history is rarely as engaging for the general public to read, or as important for designers to understand.