PORTRAITS OF PLACELESSNESS: BRITISH NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGES OF THE AFRICAN LANDSCAPE |
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| Authors: | Rebecca Caroline Lammas |
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| Institution: | c/o Department of Geography, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | Landscape art provides a window on the world of subjective interpretation and shared perceptions of place. Portraits of places are therefore simultaneously portraits of a society, its preferences and prejudices, and the meaning it imparts to the world. In the nineteenth century, settlers in Africa felt alienated, uncomfortable, abandoned and detached, and their landscape art—both paintings and poetry—was testimony to their emotional and psychological responses to the foreign environment. Both the imported artistic techniques for portraying nat?re and the symbols populating the landscape images revealed the temperament of the pioneers’ attitudes to place. |
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