Ebook: The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

This unique history of agriculture as illustrated in art since the Middle Ages illuminates the complex issues facing agriculture today.

By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.