Re-Presenting Experience: An Assessment of the Figure Within Landscape
A lone figure, dwarfed by the immensity of nature, confronted and challenged by the ferocious splendor and magnificence of the surroundings in which s/he is engulfed, is a common theme in many 19th-century Romantic landscape paintings. This provides a point of departure for a class examining the relationship between landscape, figure, and the representation of experience.
Class Document:Â Here, Now vs. There, Then