{"id":968,"date":"2016-10-25T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/?p=968"},"modified":"2016-10-25T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T15:57:01","slug":"modernism-and-changing-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/2016\/10\/25\/modernism-and-changing-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernism and Changing Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the Mitchell article and talking about modernism last class I noticed there was a strong connection between modernism and changing landscape. Imperialism occurs because of the\u00a0modernism mindset that we are always looking to improve. Imperialism causes almost instant cultural changes &#8211; similar to the Netherlands in the 17th century, changing from a rebellious colony to a maritime empire. These cultural changes caused by a &#8220;modernism&#8221; mindset affect how landscape is perceived. After the Netherlands transformed, a hybrid landscape occurred that was characterized as imperial\/modern and anti colonial. Mitchell even states that &#8220;landscape is seen as a &#8220;dreamwork&#8221; of imperialism.&#8221; \u00a0When there is a historical change or a significant shift in culture, there will be\u00a0new developments for the articulation of landscape. Landscape is a form of art and the way it is depicted changes in the same way that art changes over history. The same way that\u00a0the change to the romanticist period occurred as a reaction to the industrial revolution, which was a period of modernization. &#8220;Imperialism is an expansion of landscape understood as inevitable progressive development in history, an expansion of culture and civilization into natural space in a progress that itself is narrated as natural.&#8221; The natural progress described is modernization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the Mitchell article and talking about modernism last class I noticed there was a strong connection between modernism and changing landscape. Imperialism occurs because of the\u00a0modernism mindset that we are always looking to improve. Imperialism causes almost instant cultural changes &#8211; similar to the Netherlands in the 17th century, changing from a rebellious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}