place: land and nature a sense of place lecture 2 andrea peach
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Place: Land and Nature A Sense of Place Lecture 2 Andrea Peach. Wittgenstein’s Cottage, Lake Eidsvatnet, Norway. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation Our life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplify Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Place: Land and Nature
A Sense of PlaceLecture 2
Andrea Peach
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
Our life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplify
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
Wittgenstein’s Cottage, Lake Eidsvatnet, Norway
The spirit of place lies in its landscape E. Relph Place and Placelessness
Land is a natural phenomenon
‘Landscape’ is a cultural construct
Casper David FriedrichWanderer above the Sea of Fog1818
Thomas GainsboroughMr and Mrs Andrews1818
Stourhead Wiltshire (Henry Hoare 1720)
Little Sparta, Stoneypath (Ian Hamilton Finlay)
Karen KnorrPleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseurs1986
Timothy O’SullivanWitches Rocks, Utah1869
Rick DingusWitches Rocks, Utah1978
Ansel AdamsMonolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1927
Joel MeyerowitzBroadway and West 46th Street, New York, 1976
Guiseppe PenoneThe Tree will Continue to Grow except at this Point,1968-78
Andy Goldsworthy
Things are continuously in a state of change or flow and everything, even stone, has a sense of movement about it.
One’s mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs of thought, ideas decompose into stones of unknowing
Robert Smithson
Robert SmithsonSpiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah1969-70
Christo and Jean ClaudeSurrounded Islands Biscayne Bay, Miami1980-1983
Richard Long
I like the idea of using the landwithout possessing it
A Circle in Alaska1977
Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture.
It is both a represented and presented space, both a signifier and a signified.
WJT Mitchell
Jim PartridgeGray’s Seat Lancaster2000
Elsje van KeppelAnimal Vegetable 1996
The processes I use are
often metaphors for nature’s
processes, one which
naturally weather and create
a surface. This object is
not specifically about the
landscape ... But is was
stimulated by the experience
of being in a particular
place at a particular time.
It is about an almost
indescribable feeling of
fragility and ever
vulnerability
Roni HornBecoming a Landscape, Iceland, 1999-2001
Iceland taught me that each place is a unique location of change.
No place is a fixed or concluded thing.
Dalziel and ScullionModern NatureTyrebagger Hill, Aberdeenshire2000
Olafur EliassonThe Weather ProjectTate Modern, London
2003
The view is not
separate from
the viewer
Simon StarlingIsland for Weeds (Prototype)2003
Simon StarlingTabernas Desert Run Turner Prize 2005-06
The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes
Marcel Proust
For the Seminar:
Bring an object, text or image, which you feel is either directly or indirectly influenced by either ‘land’ or ‘nature’.
Come prepared to discuss how this contributes to our programme theme of ‘a sense of place’.