{"product_id":"aspiring-to-the-landscape-on-painting-and-the-subject-of-nature-hardback-9780802038944","title":"Aspiring to the Landscape; On Painting and the Subject of Nature (Hardback) 9780802038944","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAspiring to the Landscape\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Painting and the Subject of Nature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePetra Halkes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802038944\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 February 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e270 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003ci\u003e Aspiring to the Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e examines this persistent desire and how it is made manifest in contemporary landscape art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour 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 invite a reflection on the troubled relationship between culture and nature and our contradictory and simultaneous longing to conquer and to succumb to nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the tension between modern and postmodern interpretations of the subject of nature that makes the theory and the artwork discussed in \u003ci\u003eAspiring to the Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e so important to contemporary Canadian culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003e A Longing for the Impossible Place: Wanda Koop’s \u003cem\u003ePaintings for Dimly Lit Rooms \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003ePaintings for Brightly Lit Rooms\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e The Allegorical Impulse in Stephen Hutchings’s \u003cem\u003ePlants, Bushes, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eHedges\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Speaking the Wild: The Apophatic Representation of Nature in Susan Feindel’s Paintings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cem\u003eCosmoville\u003c\/em\u003e: The Unmanageable Surfaces of Eleanor Bond’s Rotterdam Paintings \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion (or Beginning): Opening Up the Conversation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eAppendix: Artists’ Biographies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBibliography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52542579474712,"sku":"9780802038944","price":43.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/aspiring-to-the-landscape-on-painting-and-the-subject-of-nature-hardback-9780802038944","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}