Talk // The Courtauld, Vernon Square
The Metabolism of Landscape: Ecology and Natural Philosophy in the Prints of Hercules Segers
✨ AI-written summary:Lecture on ecology in the prints of Hercules Segers
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- The Courtauld, Vernon SquareVernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW
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Looks at the seventeenth-century Dutch printmaker whose landscapes show decay while his inventive handling of materials physically enacts destruction, read through ecology and natural philosophy.
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Dutch painter-printmaker Hercules Segers (c. 1589 – c. 1638) is remembered today as a fabricator of landscapes that depict decay while also physically enacting destruction through cunning manipulations of artistic materials and techniques. …
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- art, art history
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