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The Cultivated Landscape
2008
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By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land a...
$39.99 CAD
The Cultivated Landscape
2008
EN
By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land a...
$39.99 CAD
The Cultivated Landscape
2008
EN
By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land a...
$39.99 CAD
The Cultivated Landscape
2008
EN
By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land a...
$39.99 CAD
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