The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and by Craig Pearson,Judith Nasby

By Craig Pearson,Judith Nasby

Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby talk about the evolution of ways we predict approximately agriculture, its use of the land and effect on panorama, and the way panorama has been portrayed traditionally in paintings. in addition they supply a much wider dialogue at the position that technological know-how and economics have performed in agricultural improvement and the parallels to alterations in paintings form.

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