Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005. / Title from PDF title page. Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 282-286). Also issued in print.

Orientador: José Leonardo do Nascimento / Banca: Sérgio Niculitcheff / Banca: Maria Elisa Linardi de Oliveira Cezaretti / Banca: Omar Khouri / Sérgio Mauro Romagnolo / Resumo: No texto Visconti diante das modernas gerações (1950), o crítico Mário Pedrosa sugere que os primeiros artistas modernos brasileiros deveriam ter aprendido a comunicabilidade entre o homem e a natureza com as pinturas de Eliseu Visconti e não apenas ter importado ideias da Europa, pois no Brasil já haviam aprendizados indispensáveis na obra desse artista. Partindo do referido texto de Mário Pedrosa, esta pesquisa desenvolve uma reflexão sobre os contextos que tocam diretamente ou não a trajetória e a produção de Eliseu Visconti, mais especificamente suas pinturas de paisagem. Procuramos compreender as experiências viscontianas que o levaram a desenvolver o ensinamento contido nas suas pinturas de paisagem a partir de uma leitura que se beneficia das contribuições de abordagens históricas, filosóficas e antropológicas, incluindo preocupações estéticas. Os contextos são reconstruídos e discutidos, no intento de melhor entender a relação de Eliseu Visconti com a experiência de ser ou não ser um homem moderno em tempos de múltiplas modernidades. Considerando os conceitos de modernidade, transitoriedade e mundo vivido, repensamos o "lugar" de Eliseu Visconti na nossa memória. Revisamos os modos de conceber a natureza e a paisagem na arte, para no estudo elaborar as noções de pintor inabitante e pintor habitante. Discorremos sobre os modos pelos quais Eliseu Visconti deixa de ser um pintor inabitante para se tornar um pintor habitante ao revelar no conjunto de suas pinturas de pais... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Résumé: Dans le texte Visconti face aux générations modemes (1950), le critique Mário Pedrosa suggérait que les premiers artistes modernes brésiliens auraient dO étudier la communicabilité entre l'homme et la nature à partir des peintures de Eliseu Visconti et non uniquement avec les idées importées de l'Europe, puisque au Brésil il existait déjà des enseignements en relation aux reuvres de cet artiste. À partir du texte de Mário Pedrosa, cette recherche développe une réflexion sur les contextes qui touchent directement le parcours et la production de Eliseu Visconti, mais plus spécifiquement ses peintures de paysages. Nous cherchons à comprendre les expériences viscontiennes qui lui ont mené à développer les leçons que l'on peut tirer des paysages, à partir d'une lecture qui s'enrichie des contributions des éléments historiques, philosophiques et anthropologiques. Vient s'y rajouter les préoccupations esthétiques. Les contextes sont reconstitués et discutés, dans l'intention de mieux comprendre la relation de Eliseu Visconti avec l'expérience d'être ou de ne pas être un homme moderne en période de modernités multiples en tenant compte des concepts de modernité, transitoire et monde vécu, nous avons repensé le "lieu" de Eliseu Visconti dans notre mémoire. Nous relisons la façon de concevoir la nature et le paysage dans l'art, pour élaborer les notions de peintre habitant et de peintre non habitant dans cette étude. Nous réfléchissons sur la maniêre dont Eliseu Visconti cesse d'être ... (Résumé complet accès életronique ci-dessous) / Doutor

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My thesis is one artist's response to the question of the relevance of landscape painting today, focusing on the communication of the idea of environmental stewardship. The process of studying nature and transferring that vision to canvas promotes greater understanding of the beauty and complexity of elements that comprise ecosystems. The artist possesses a creative impulse finding satisfaction in making artwork that expresses a love of nature as part of a larger worldview. If done well, the persuasive power of such art may be enormous. Comprised of oil paintings and written work, this thesis establishes a way of approaching both landscape painting and the natural environment. Literature pertaining to the contributions of landscape artist Frederic Church, varying aesthetic theories, nature writings, and selected contemporary artists are discussed. The focus then turns to particular landscape elements, introducing the artwork created for the thesis. The thesis concludes with the artist's purpose statement.

This body of work explores the emotional aspects of my life through the metaphor of landscape. It is a contemplation of the genre of landscape in the contemporary art dialog. By exploring the materiality of paint and the physicality of working large I discovered the question of contemporary relevancy is no longer my primary reason for this investigation. My growth as an artist has come from exploring historical and contemporary influences and how they have affected my processes and visual aesthetic. Thus, a large series of work has emerged from an unexplainable desire to connect and share the crucial moments of my life through paint.

In the 1950s, a group of African-American artists based around Ft. Pierce, Florida, began selling their landscapes of palm hammocks, colorful sunsets, and Evergladian fauna to tourists traveling south to the Sunshine State. Mass-produced in the artists' backyards, these subtropic landscapes found their way into Florida's motels, hotels, banks, and office buildings as well as private homes. The regional art form fell out of favor until the mid-1990s when an art aficionado coined the name "Highwaymen." Since then a resurgence of interest has brought new fame to the surviving members of the group. Along with this modern interest in the Highwaymen comes another facet of the subject : Several Highwaymen have sons and daughters who paint. Do the children paint like their parents? Are the children riding on the coattails of their parents or have they developed their own original style? Is the legacy of the Highwaymen continued in their progeny? / by Elissa Rudolph. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2005. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, FL : 2005 Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Culitivated Tastes argues for a new evaluation of colonial landscape art and representations of nature from the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia). The thesis focuses on examples from Java, Sumatra, Ambon and Bali during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also discusses early post-colonial literature. It uses paintings and photography, with supporting references to Dutch colonial novels, to argue that images of landscape and nature were linked to the formation of Dutch colonial identities and, more generally, to the politics of colonial expansion. Paintings were not simply colonial kitsch (mooi Indi??, or 'beautiful Indies', images): they were the purest expression of Dutch ideals about the peaceful, prosperous landscapes that were crucial to uncontested colonial rule. Often these ideals were contradicted by historical reality. Indeed, paintings rarely showed Dutch interventions in Indies landscapes, particularly those that were met with resistance and rebellion. Colonial photographs often supported the painterly ideals of peace and prosperity, but in different ways: photographs celebrated European intrusions upon and restructuring of Indonesian landscapes, communicating the notions of progress and rational, benevolent rule. It is in literature that we find broader discussions of nature, which includes climate as well as topography. Here representations of landscape and nature are explicitly linked to the formation of colonial identities. Dutch anxieties about the boundaries of racial and gender identities were embedded within references to Indies landscape and nature. Inner colonial worlds intersected with perceptions of the larger environment in literature: here the ideals and triumphs associated with Dutch colonial expansion were juxtaposed against fears related to remaining European in a tropical Asian landscape.

Culitivated Tastes argues for a new evaluation of colonial landscape art and representations of nature from the Netherlands Indies (colonial Indonesia). The thesis focuses on examples from Java, Sumatra, Ambon and Bali during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also discusses early post-colonial literature. It uses paintings and photography, with supporting references to Dutch colonial novels, to argue that images of landscape and nature were linked to the formation of Dutch colonial identities and, more generally, to the politics of colonial expansion. Paintings were not simply colonial kitsch (mooi Indi??, or 'beautiful Indies', images): they were the purest expression of Dutch ideals about the peaceful, prosperous landscapes that were crucial to uncontested colonial rule. Often these ideals were contradicted by historical reality. Indeed, paintings rarely showed Dutch interventions in Indies landscapes, particularly those that were met with resistance and rebellion. Colonial photographs often supported the painterly ideals of peace and prosperity, but in different ways: photographs celebrated European intrusions upon and restructuring of Indonesian landscapes, communicating the notions of progress and rational, benevolent rule. It is in literature that we find broader discussions of nature, which includes climate as well as topography. Here representations of landscape and nature are explicitly linked to the formation of colonial identities. Dutch anxieties about the boundaries of racial and gender identities were embedded within references to Indies landscape and nature. Inner colonial worlds intersected with perceptions of the larger environment in literature: here the ideals and triumphs associated with Dutch colonial expansion were juxtaposed against fears related to remaining European in a tropical Asian landscape.

In each of my paintings I try to create an individual micro-universe made up of elements that resonate between the familiar and the unknown. I carve up space and hybridize disparate elements, in an effort to excavate objects and spaces from our collective unconscious. By employing different perspectives, I try to encourage an experiential view of the landscape, like the one that exists for the viewer in the physical world, where sightlines are constantly shifting. These landscapes become a rhythmic labyrinth to enter and travel through, wherein the viewer experiences his or her own personal associations. In this thesis, I will explore the painted landscape in Western and Eastern traditions and discuss different types of landscapes as they relate to my paintings and my personal commentary on the landscape. I will also examine my painting process and my personal approach to fundamental elements including perspective, line, and color.

This dissertation initially attempts a brief history of the landscape tradition in the West with the emphasis on developments in nineteenth-century French landscape painting. A collection of these paintings in the Tatham Art Gallery is then closely examined in the light of the socio-political circumstances that influenced their origins and acquisition. Finally a full catalogue of the paintings is presented with digital images and documentation. / Thesis (M.A.F.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2004.