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Poetry and Landscape
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18-adult
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Additional information
Order number: 336A
Professor John Barrell of Sussex University looks at eighteenth-century landscape paintings and poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as a metaphor for society, providing either a justification for, or a critique of, the established order. The program falls into four parts:
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The organization of eighteenth-century landscape painting to look like theatre sets and a comparison with equivalent techniques in poetry
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The political significance of such a procedure, related to the different layers of society
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The contrast in paintings between formalized landscape gardens and `natural' landscape and its significance as a metaphor for degrees of freedom
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The layering of society represented in rural poetry and in visual representations of rural life.
Credits -
Director
Robert Philip
Presenter
Professor John Barrell
Open University/BBC
