The international workshop “Unruly landscapes: Producing, picturing, and embodying nature in early modernity” discusses notions and concepts of landscape and nature in early modern European art and visual culture by connecting recent approaches in art history, architectural history, environmental history, the history of science, the history of spirituality, and the philosophy of aesthetics. It explores shifts and ruptures in the (mostly) early modern representation, imagination, and creation of spaces and places oscillating between inside and outside, interiority and ‘worldliness’, confinement and boundlessness, and between this world and another (or the next). The focus is on the notion of landscape as an intermediate or mediating space, shaped by both nature and art, civilization and wilderness. The workshop aims to provide a forum to further explore the early modern ‘landscape’ in its multiple (metaphorical) uses and meanings as, for example, a site for farming and agriculture, a site of aesthetic experience, artistic self-fashioning, and religious self-cultivation, an area of archaeological and geological research, and a place of warfare and violence.
Workshop: Thursday, 14 December and Friday, 15 December 2017
Attendance is free of charge but due to limited seats, registration is required until
6 December 2017.
Organized by Christine Göttler, Ivo Raband, Michèle Seehafer, and Steffen Zierholz
Contact: Michèle Seehafer, michele.seehafer2@unibe.ch
