New grounds for Dutch landscape

Lytle Shaw

New Grounds for Dutch Landscape' uses an experimental, site-specific method to demonstrate how 17th century painters Jan van Goyen, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Meindert Hobbema did not so much represent the newly made landscape of Holland as re-enact, through their painterly factures, its reclamation and ongoing threats to its stability: from flooding and drainage to abrasion and erosion. These low-level dramas of recalcitrant matter allowed the Dutch to develop an ongoing temporality at odds with history painting?s decisive instant and a vocabulary of substance that wrested meaning away from humanist landscape painting?s expressive figures.00Lytle Shaw?s books include 'Frank O?Hara: The Poetics of Coterie', 'The Moiré Effect', 'Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics', and 'Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research'. His museum catalog publications include essays on Robert...