Landscape and earth in early modernity : picturing unruly nature / edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Göttler, Christine, editor.

Mochizuki, Mia M., editor.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscapes in art.

Nature in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages) : illustrations (colour), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicises the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and reimagining landscape as a mediating space in the interplay between the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary, the internal and the external. The lens of the 'unruly' reveals the latent landscapes that undergirded their conception, the elemental resources that resurfaced from the bowels of the earth, the staged topographies that unsettled the boundaries between nature and technology, and the fragile ecologies that undermined the status quo of human environs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Landscape, Mutability, and the Unruly Earth: An Introduction

Part 1. Latent Landscapes

1. Waterland and the Disquiet of the Dutch Landscape

2. Landscape and Autography

3. Painted Landscape before Landscape Painting in Early Modern England

Part 2. Elemental Resources

4. Unruly Indigo? Plants, Plantations, and Partitions

5. A Natural History in Stone: Medusa’s Unruly Gaze on bardiglio grigio

6. The Cosmologies of Early Modern Mining Landscapes

Part 3. Staged Topographies

7. Aurea Aetas Antverpiensis : Land(scapes) in the Blijde Inkomst for Ernest of Austria into Antwerp, 1594

8. An Overlooked Landscape Installation : The Winter Room at Copenhagen’s Rosenborg Castle

9. Insidious Images: Veiled Sight and Insight in Pieter Bruegel’s Landscapes

Part 4. Fragile Ecologies

10. “In einem Augenblick”: Leveling Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Disaster Flap Prints

11. Performative Landscapes: A Paradigm for Mediating the Ecological Imperative?

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2023).

ISBN:

9789048552153

904855215X

OCLC:

1356573000