About

New Terrains: The Landscape Reviewed hopes to push re-visionary concepts of re-claiming or re-constructing the landscape in visual practices and see how such theories actually work in re-forming our conceptions of what landscape is as materiality and does as an ever-expanding genre.

Organized by the graduate students of the Art History Department, and generously funded by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) we hope to facilitate a research cluster that attracts students in many of the visual disciplines and the humanities through monthly reading groups and a corresponding blog that will culminate in a graduate student-run symposium and art exhibition.  The goal of the symposium is to re-consider the potency of landscape images and the kinds of knowledge they produce.

In the face of ecological crisis, contestation of borders, and the expansion of the digital sphere, our selected panels of graduate students from across the country will explore written and visual work that questions what constitutes landscape and how and where landscapes can be located – and what implications such questioning produces.  We believe these are crucial issues in our time and we want to interrogate the possible cultural work. Through these activities, we aim to investigate processes of de-naturalizing and expanding the concept of landscape into bodily, virtual, and other terrains, but also welcome ideas that critique such popular artistic and social practices.

 

The Society for Art History & Archaeology would like to thank the IPRH, the Art History Program, and the Art Education Program at the University of Illinois for their generous support.

Contact Information:
Laura Shea / lbarone2@illinois.edu
Jessie Landau / landau3@illinois.edu

Artwork Pictured: Swim City by Andrea Barone, andrealohsebarone.com