Graduate Research and Discovery Symposium (GRADS)

Document Type

Poster

Publication Date

Spring 2015

Abstract

The concept of the natural landscape has evolved in conjunction with the intervention of humans in the environment. The Industrial Revolution acted as a catalyst for such physical changes. Many photographers have worked to document this change. New Topographics, a photography exhibition from 1975, presented viewers with a series of man-altered landscapes. The photographers who worked on this project and others like it introduced the actual landscape as we have shaped it, challenging the age-old idea of the Romantic Landscape. My work expands on the concept of the changing landscape and the duality of man and nature by romanticizing these scenes. I investigate the relationship between the Romantic Landscape and the man-altered landscape to redefine the Sublime in contemporary art.

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