GGR360H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ellsworth Huntington, Carl O. Sauer, Delicate Arch
16 Jun 2020
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Landscape in geography, from morphology to the vernacular. Outline: two basic approaches to landscape, cultural geography and environmental determinism, carl sauer and the morphology of landscape, the legacy of the berkeley school, landscape magazine and the vernacular. Deeply political contrivance of the state reinforced, symbolized by this space. Understand them to be painting to be of a landscape . We slip easily into calling the paintings themselves landscapes . If this were of a forest, van gogh probably wouldn"t call it a landscape. Notes also that there is work going, with the ploughman. Picturesqueness of landscapes often conceals, obscures, and naturalizes harsher realities. Informs a racist, imperialist worldview; idea of superiority as determined by nature. This is where the study of landscape was born. By the 20s and 30s, huntington is starting to be seen as a crackpot. Anthropologists doing a kind of anti-racist work had a lot to do with this.
