Place: Land and Nature

A Sense of Place
Lecture 2
Andrea Peach
 Wittgensteins Cottage,
Lake Eidsvatnet,
Norway

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

The spirit of place lies in its
landscape E. Relph Place and Placelessness
Land is a natural phenomenon

Landscape is a cultural
construct
Casper David Friedrich
Wanderer above
the Sea of Fog
1818
Thomas Gainsborough
Mr and Mrs Andrews
1818
 Little Sparta, Stoneypath
(Ian Hamilton Finlay)

Stourhead Wiltshire (Henry Hoare 1720)

Karen Knorr
Pleasures of the Imagination: Connoisseurs
1986
Timothy OSullivan
Witches Rocks, Utah
1869

Rick Dingus
Witches Rocks, Utah
1978
Ansel Adams
Monolith, the Face of Half
Dome, Yosemite Valley,
California, 1927
Joel Meyerowitz
Broadway and West 46th
Street, New York, 1976
Guiseppe Penone
The Tree will Continue to
Grow except at this Point,
1968-78
Andy Goldsworthy

Things are continuously in a state of

change or flow and everything, even
stone, has a sense of movement about it.
 Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty,
Great Salt Lake, Utah
1969-70

Ones mind and the earth are in a constant state

Christo and Jean Claude
Surrounded Islands
Biscayne Bay, Miami
1980-1983
Richard Long

I like the idea of

using the land
without possessing it

A Circle in Alaska
1977
Landscape is a natural
scene mediated by culture.

It is both a represented
and presented space, both
a signifier and a signified.

WJT Mitchell
Jim Partridge
Grays Seat
Lancaster
2000
 The processes I use are often
metaphors for natures
processes, one which
naturally weather and create
a surface. This object is not
specifically about the
landscape ... But is was
stimulated by the experience
of being in a particular
place at a particular time. It is
about an almost indescribable
feeling of fragility and ever
vulnerability

Elsje van Keppel

Animal Vegetable
1996
 Iceland taught me
that each place is
a unique location
of change.

No place is a fixed
or concluded
thing.

Roni Horn
Becoming a Landscape, Iceland, 1999-2001
Dalziel and Scullion
Modern Nature
Tyrebagger Hill, Aberdeenshire
2000
The view is not
separate from
the viewer

Olafur Eliasson
The Weather Project
Tate Modern, London
2003
Simon Starling
Island for Weeds (Prototype)
2003
Simon Starling
Tabernas Desert Run
Turner Prize 2005-06
The real voyage of discovery
consists in not seeking new
landscapes, but in having new eyes

Marcel Proust
For the Seminar:

Bring an object, text or image, which you feel is

either directly or indirectly influenced by either
land or nature.

Come prepared to discuss how this contributes

to our programme theme of a sense of place.