Landscape and Infrastructure: Reimagining the Pastoral Paradigm for the Twenty-First Century

Landscape and Infrastructure examines the relationships between landscape painting and landscape design from the 17th century to the present, and contemporary infrastructure projects around the globe.

These seemingly disparate subjects are united by a shared concern for the pastoral middle ground; a traditionally productive landscape. By focusing an art—historical lens on pre-industrial productive systems and the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the pastoral landscape tradition, we ca...