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Petra Halkes - Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature - 9780802038944 - V9780802038944
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Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature

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Description for Aspiring to the Landscape: On Painting and the Subject of Nature hardcover. It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture. Num Pages: 270 pages, illustrations (some colour). BIC Classification: 1KBC; AGB; AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.

The idea of nature as a cultural construction has been discussed extensively in postmodern theory. Less attention, however, has been paid to the underlying motivations shaping the ideologies of nature, in particular the desire to submit to some larger order outside of oneself. Aspiring to the Landscape examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art.

Four installations of large-scale paintings by Canadian artists Eleanor Bond, Susan Feindel, Stephen Hutchings, and Wanda Koop are the focus of Petra Halkes's study. The works vary widely in style and iconography but are drawn together by the way they ... Read more

It is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in Aspiring to the Landscape so important to contemporary Canadian culture.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802038944
SKU
V9780802038944
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-17

About Petra Halkes
Petra Halkes is an independent curator, painter, and art critic living in Ontario.

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