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

2 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

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

5 Land is a natural phenomenon ‘Landscape’ is a cultural construct

6 Casper David Friedrich Wanderer above the Sea of Fog 1818

7 Thomas Gainsborough Mr and Mrs Andrews 1818

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

9 Karen Knorr Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseurs 1986

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

11 Ansel Adams Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1927

12 Joel Meyerowitz Broadway and West 46th Street, New York, 1976

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

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

15 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 Smithson Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, Utah 1969-70

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

17 Richard Long I like the idea of using the land without possessing it A Circle in Alaska 1977

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

19 Jim Partridge Gray’s Seat Lancaster 2000

20 Elsje van Keppel Animal 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

21 Roni Horn Becoming 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.

22 Dalziel and Scullion Modern Nature Tyrebagger Hill, Aberdeenshire 2000

23 Olafur Eliasson The Weather Project Tate Modern, London 2003 The view is not separate from the viewer

24 Simon Starling Island for Weeds (Prototype) 2003

25 Simon Starling Tabernas Desert Run Turner Prize 2005-06

26 The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes Marcel Proust

27 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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