The Cultivated Landscape: An Exploration of Art and Agriculture

By the late twentieth century, idyllic depictions of eighteenth-century manorial landscapes had become artistic expressions of dislocation. Western agricultural paradigms had shifted, as had the relationship between art and agriculture. The Cultivated Landscape uses over seventy illustrations to look at the development of Western agriculture from feudal times to the present.

Craig Pearson and Judith Nasby discuss the evolution of how we think about agriculture, its use of the land and impac...