Academic Sessions: Exeter 1998
National Consciousness and the Representation of the Landscape
Conveners:
Professor Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) and John Shanahan (University of Plymouth)
In an era when national borders are being transcended and eroded by global politics and multi-national conglomerates a strong emphasis on difference has begun to emerge in the discourse of national identity.
This session aims to investigate ways in which ideas of national identity are manifested in works of art that are topographical in nature, including landscape and townscape painting and cartography. It will explore how landscape can become a repository for discourses on national identity and how the visual arts can articulate these discourses.
The proposed session will seek examples from the middle ages to the modern period and will examine how landscape is able to convey a sense of national pride and communality. Papers will be welcomed that move beyond a narrow definition of nation to include city states, princely dominions and more abstract notions of homeland.
Papers might address the process by which landscape becomes a repository for a national mythology and the extent to which landscape imagery can formulate a national consciousness.
The extent to which the media employed - photography, printmaking, painting or cartography - affect the kinds of identities that are articulated might also be an area of interest, as might issues related to patronage, collection and appreciation.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the conveners at the following addresses:
Camille Serchuk, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 1355, USA.
Tel: (203) 392 6644; Fax: (203) 392 6655); Email: serchuk@scsud.ctstateu.edu
John Shanahan, 12 Beauly Close, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, UK.
Tel: (01752 343847); Fax: (01392 475012; Email: jshanahan@plymouth.ac.uk
Professor Camille Serchuk (Southern Connecticut State University) and John Shanahan (University of Plymouth)
In an era when national borders are being transcended and eroded by global politics and multi-national conglomerates a strong emphasis on difference has begun to emerge in the discourse of national identity.
This session aims to investigate ways in which ideas of national identity are manifested in works of art that are topographical in nature, including landscape and townscape painting and cartography. It will explore how landscape can become a repository for discourses on national identity and how the visual arts can articulate these discourses.
The proposed session will seek examples from the middle ages to the modern period and will examine how landscape is able to convey a sense of national pride and communality. Papers will be welcomed that move beyond a narrow definition of nation to include city states, princely dominions and more abstract notions of homeland.
Papers might address the process by which landscape becomes a repository for a national mythology and the extent to which landscape imagery can formulate a national consciousness.
The extent to which the media employed - photography, printmaking, painting or cartography - affect the kinds of identities that are articulated might also be an area of interest, as might issues related to patronage, collection and appreciation.
Proposals for papers should be sent to the conveners at the following addresses:
Camille Serchuk, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent Street, New Haven, CT 06515 1355, USA.
Tel: (203) 392 6644; Fax: (203) 392 6655); Email: serchuk@scsud.ctstateu.edu
John Shanahan, 12 Beauly Close, Plympton, Plymouth, Devon, UK.
Tel: (01752 343847); Fax: (01392 475012; Email: jshanahan@plymouth.ac.uk