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1990s in the UK
"Cool Britannia"
The past and future
Wordlessness
Haptic familiarity
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Networked painting
Sources from the earth
Chemical transformation/alchemy
Performativity
Holonomic brain model
Screen memories
Parent/child/sibling relationships
Memory paintings
Jutta Koether (Poussin)
National mythology
History painting
Tableaux
Stonehenge
Raves
Long timescales
TJ Clark - The Sight of Death
Mike Pearson - Bubbling Tom
Freud
Surrealism
Nostalgia
Landscape as a narrative
Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
The artist's
Selfhood
Memory
Suburbia
Intimate knowledge of unremarkable places
Local histories
Gossip
Brexit
Sigrid Holmwood
Industrial towns/factory villages
Miners' strikes
Whose right to inhabit the countryside?
Ramblers' association
Kinder Scout Trespass 1932
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
Multiple truths
Assimilated stories
Oblivion
Shame
Historical artefacts
Memory as metaphor/allegory
Unreliable memory
Family archives/photo album
Digital obsolescence
2nd alienation (guilt)
The particular/personal
Bohemianism
The Pre-Raphaelites
Wilderness/cultivation
Nation/identity
Town/country
Provincialism
Social class
Robin Hood legend
Landscape
UK
Norway
Alienation from nature
Climate
Agriculture
Medievalism
Pastoral
Collective memory
Landscape archetypes
The idea of the rural vs. the reality of the rural
Agriculture shaping the land
Landscape as a container for memory/history
Topoanalysis
Psychoanalysis and space
Heterotopias
Postindustrial labour
The 'natural world'
The sublime
Romanticisation of rural work
Hop-picking
Landscape as a conduit for emotion
Seasonal farm work
Landscape as a battleground
Scotland - sheep/pine forests
Highland clearances
"Keep Britain Tidy"
Minority groups
Immigration
Work & leisure, country & city
Seaside towns
Kent (the 'Garden of England')
White Cliffs of Dover
The artist's holiday
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Narrative painting
Social realism
Frescoes & altarpieces
Drawing
Faces
Quantum states
End of Empire (Hong Kong 1992)
Channel Tunnel 1992
Poll tax riots
Thatcher/Major/Blair
Good Friday Agreement 1998
(House prices and transport)
Nationalism
Enclosures
Jung - archetypes
What can the past reveal about the present?
Socialist utopias (Morris, Orwell)
Feudalism
Bloomsbury Group
The Fabian Society
Landscape as a social document
Regional specificity
Childhood
Painting process & materials
Holidays
Anthropocene
The universal
Representation/Abstraction
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Romanticism
Ross-shire sheep riots
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Rise of the EU (Maastricht Treaty 1992)
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