IAHIS 5215 Art & Nature
Students examine the complexity and ambivalence of humanity's relationship to the natural world, and the rich variety of artistic responses it has inspired. Taking a thematic approach, the course explores selected topics across chronological, geographic and cultural lines, including: varieties of landscape painting in the West and the East; the expressive shaping of landscape across the centuries, from Neolithic earth formations, landscape design and development of the Olmsted urban park systems, to recent Land Art, and the rise of a modern-day ecological consciousness with its expression in art.