Overview

• Since the 1800’s shift from domination to understanding

mindset in art, educational pedagogy, and the dominant
strain of Christianity.

• Moving from themes of control and precision to themes of

unity, echoed in the strong trans-disciplinary connections
with landscape.

• This interconnected perspective reflects the

interconnectedness of our ecosystems, and echoes the
Froebelian emphasis on unity
Key Takeaways
• The etymological root of the Anglo-Saxon/Romance
language term ‘landscape’ implies people have settled
the area.

• Nature has been seen as ambivalent or neutral, but the

tone has changed, making the use of nature more
emotional and more conceptual.

• Historical parallels in the way Western society has

viewed nature, children, women, and minorities, and
even the individual self.
Art History Connection

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1. Great Serpent
Mound,(between
320 BC and 1070
AD) Ohio, Aedna or
Fort Ancient Culture
2. Thatched Cottage in
Autumn Mountains,
Wang Meng (1308-
1385)
3. A View on a High
Road, Meindert
Hobberna, 1665
22 3
Yaritji Young

Tjala Tjukurpa (Honey Ant Story), acrylic on linen, 200 x 299.5 cm

“My paintings are of my country: my father’s country, my grandmother’s country, the tjala
country. Everything that my grandmother taught me, I’m teaching to my grandchildren
now.”
Richard Mayhew

Lumbee, 2009
Oil on canvas
30 × 30 in

“I use landscape image as

a metaphor for the feeling
of time and illusion.”
Nirupa Rao

“I think a lot of people just tend to see plants as background scenery, assuming that their
immobility makes them uninteresting. But I began to see that it is that very rootedness that makes
them fascinating.”