Academic Sessions: London 1997
Landscape, Space and Gender
Conveners:
Steven Adams (University of Hertfordshire) and Anna Robins (University of Reading)
This session examines issues around landscape and gender in visual culture. It explores ways in which both the representation and the consumption of real and imagined spaces have taken on a gendered inflexion in western and non-western cultures, and aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for art, architectural and cultural historians.
Particular areas of interest include the gendering of modernist discourses around landscape painting - how, for example, the representation of the countryside was cast as an essentially male activity while landscape imagery might be gendered as feminine. The representation of the city and the suburb, and the ways in which these spaces were articulated through gendered discourses, will be a further concern.
Steven Adams (University of Hertfordshire) and Anna Robins (University of Reading)
This session examines issues around landscape and gender in visual culture. It explores ways in which both the representation and the consumption of real and imagined spaces have taken on a gendered inflexion in western and non-western cultures, and aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for art, architectural and cultural historians.
Particular areas of interest include the gendering of modernist discourses around landscape painting - how, for example, the representation of the countryside was cast as an essentially male activity while landscape imagery might be gendered as feminine. The representation of the city and the suburb, and the ways in which these spaces were articulated through gendered discourses, will be a further concern.
The production and consumption of landscape imagery in the popular culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will also be explored, as well as the ways in which romantic and realist iconography could create imaginary realms for women.
- Julie King (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand): Marianne North in New Zealand: the Intersection of Femininity, Science and Art in the Colonial Landscape.
- Densie Oleksijczuk (University of British Columbia): Subjectivity and the Doubling of Space in the Panorama.
- Nina Lubbren (Anglia Polytechnic University): Beyond the Gaze: Landscapes of Immersion.
- Steven Adams (University of Hertfordshire): 'Gros garcons': Modernism and the Construction of Masculinity in Nineteenth- Century French Landscape Painting.
- Paul Smith (University of Bristol): Blurring the Line: Impressionism, Gender and Landscape.
- Jillian Cassidy (University of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand): Landscape Fragments: Dame Eileen Mayo in Australia and New Zealand
- Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch (University College Dublin): Landscape, Space and Gender: Their Role in the Construction of Female Identity in Newly-Independent Ireland.
- David Peters Corbett (University of York): Landscape, Interior Space and Modernity in English Art After the First World War
- Pat Simpson (University of Hertfordshire): Soviet Superwoman in the Landscape of Liberty: Aleksandr Deineka's Razdol'e, 1944
- Caroline Jones (Boston University): Robert Smithson and the Technological Sublime
- Anna Robins (University of Reading): Richard Long: Cultural Explorer.