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IF YOU PLEASE Construct a 500 word essay based on a minimum of three 'linked' readings from Readings 4 (Arcady - Romanticism(s) - Neoclassicism(s)). By 'linked' is meant a thematic review of a critical issue related to Western gardens and sites visited (or others not visited within this timeframe). Do not simply review a reading or restate its premises. Turn these readings into reflections on the nature of Landscape Itself. Please use the appropriate bibliographic detail to support your essay: Author, publication, city, publisher, date, and pages (if a direct citation). The readings are broad enough to support various tangents and investigations beyond the material specifically covered in lectures. Deadline - November 20 (by e-mail and hardcopy) E-mail to: ateliermp@netscape.net Sample subject matter: 1/ Is the recurrence of certain follies and forms in the picturesque garden (e.g. The Temple of Philosophy) simply a knock-on effect (copies of copies) or is something more grave and significant at hand in these gardens comprised of 'symbolic' architectural fabriques and evocative landscape compositions? 2/ How is the Sublime expressed (intentionally or unintentionally) in the 'Neoclassical', 'Palladian', and 'Picturesque' landscape garden? Are these latter terms synonymous? 3/ Why the appearance (emergence) of the 'anglo-chinois' garden? And where did it come from? And why at the tail (tale) end of the picturesque trajectory? Did the oeuvre exhaust itself? 4/ How is 'historicity' - being historical/historical being - preserved in gardens and landscapes? How is it retrieved, if at all? Is it ever completely effaced (lost) or does it live on in 'haunted' landscapes lurking beneath the surface? 5/ What is the forward/backward pas-de-deux between landscape painting and landscape architecture in the neoclassical period ultimately expressive of? Does it reveal something essential about the nature of representation and image-making, i.e. the blurry line between built reality and dream (ideal) reality? 6/ For those of you who may be intrigued with exploring the Ur-archaic bi-dimensionality of the Freemasonic rituals staged in some of these gardens, please see Frances Yates' The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Anthony Vidler's The Writing of the Walls, and Manfredo Tafuri's Theories & History of Architecture. |
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