Reading and response due October 14
"Imperial Landscape" by W. J. Thomas Mitchell" from Landscape and Power
Please read pages 5-21 of the essay and post responses to the following questions on the blog:
1.W.J.T. Mitchell spends much of the essay talking about some of the problems with widespread art historical assumptions about the genre of landscape art. What are some of these assumptions, and why does he find them questionable?
2.What does Mitchell mean in his claim that “landscape is best understood as a medium of cultural expression, not a genre of painting or fine art”? Please elaborate.
3.What does the genre of landscape have to do with imperialism and what are some of the “dark sides” of landscape?
please bring your reading with you next week and prepare your responses.
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