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A common language of landscape representation: New Zealand and California painting in the nineteenth century
No full textIn the nineteenth century, landscape painters in California and New Zealand shared a common language of landscape representation, looking at untamed coasts and rugged mountains through a lens shaped by two centuries of European artistic tradition. Explored in this paper is the influence of the picturesque tradition in New Zealand and California art in the nineteenth century. Ideological functions of landscape painting are identified: that is, ways artists in both New Zealand and California appropriated the landscape to support certain cultural, political and social agendas. Their work represents not only the land but the myths inscribed upon it by bourgeois culture
Words and weeds: Some notes on language and landscape
No full textThe language of landscape is inescapably anthropocentric: inescapable because the very concept of landscape is anthropocentric, a way of positioning ourselves in relation to the external environment. Indeed we are constantly translating that environment into landscape to make it humanly habitable. The point of this paper is not, therefore, to urge us to avoid such language, but rather that we be more highly conscious of it. To this end, I begin with some obvious examples of explicit anthropocentrism, progressing to more subtle, implicit ones, move on to a discussion of attitudes to order and disorder, concluding with a survey of some of the verbal tactics we employ in coping with strange environments. One that is prominent in Australia and New Zealand is the range of naming strategies we use for places and things