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Place: Land and Nature A Sense of Place Lecture 2 Andrea Peach

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.

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Place: Land and Nature A Sense of Place Lecture 2 Andrea Peach

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  1. Place:Land and NatureA Sense of PlaceLecture 2Andrea Peach

  2. Wittgenstein’s Cottage, Lake Eidsvatnet, Norway The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperationOur life is frittered away by detail … simplify, simplifyHenry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

  3. The spirit of place lies in its landscape E. Relph Place and Placelessness

  4. Land is a natural phenomenon‘Landscape’ is a cultural construct

  5. Casper David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 1818

  6. Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs Andrews 1818

  7. Little Sparta, Stoneypath (Ian Hamilton Finlay) Stourhead Wiltshire (Henry Hoare 1720)

  8. Karen Knorr Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseurs 1986

  9. Timothy O’Sullivan Witches Rocks, Utah 1869 Rick Dingus Witches Rocks, Utah 1978

  10. Ansel AdamsMonolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1927

  11. Joel MeyerowitzBroadway and West 46th Street, New York, 1976

  12. Guiseppe Penone The Tree will Continue to Grow except at this Point, 1968-78

  13. Andy GoldsworthyThings are continuously in a state of change or flow and everything, even stone, has a sense of movement about it.

  14. Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah 1969-70 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 unknowingRobert Smithson

  15. Christo and Jean Claude Surrounded Islands Biscayne Bay, Miami 1980-1983

  16. Richard LongI like the idea of using the landwithout possessing it A Circle in Alaska 1977

  17. Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture. It is both a represented and presented space, both a signifier and a signified. WJT Mitchell

  18. Jim Partridge Gray’s Seat Lancaster 2000

  19. 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 Elsje van Keppel Animal Vegetable 1996

  20. 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.

  21. Dalziel and ScullionModern NatureTyrebagger Hill, Aberdeenshire2000

  22. The view is not separate from the viewer Olafur EliassonThe Weather ProjectTate Modern, London 2003

  23. Simon StarlingIsland for Weeds (Prototype)2003

  24. Simon Starling Tabernas Desert Run Turner Prize 2005-06

  25. The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyesMarcel Proust

  26. 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’.

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