Throughout the twentieth-century artists have responded to the landscape in
emotional, physical and political ways: exploring themes of belonging to the land by interrogating the relationship between landscape history and identity, the enclosure or militarisation of land, to artists creating works that harness or dramatise natural earth processes. As the custodian of the national collection of British art, Tate's climate emergency declaration points to a wider concern and care for the environment that underpins the themes in Radical Landscapes. Structured on three broad thematic sections; 'Trespass', 'Landscape and Identity', and 'Climate Breakdown', there will be around 100 works in total starting from 1900 until today.
Focussing on activism and how we value, care for, use and draw meaning from the natural landscape, the book will showcase an array of viewpoints reflecting the diverse perspectives in modern Britain, examining the artists' relationship to the landscape and social history as a stimulus for the imagination as much as action and protest. It presents a radical and outward-facing image of Britain and its diverse peoples and landscapes to the world. These conversations present a rare opportunity to reframe Tate's holdings of landscape art as well as explore how we might commune with nature and collectively work towards a more sustainable and equitable future.
在整个二十世纪,艺术家们以情感、身体和政治的方式来回应景观:通过审视景观历史和身份之间的关系、圈地运动或军事化来探索对土地的归属问题,以及艺术家利用或戏剧化地球自然进程的创作作品。英国泰特美术馆在气候变化紧急状态公开信中指出,对环境的广泛关注和关怀,也是激进景观的主题。结构上有三个广泛的主题部分:“入侵”、“景观与身份”和“气候崩溃”,总共有大约100件作品,从1900年开始至今。
本书聚焦于行动主义以及我们如何重视、关心、使用自然景观并从中汲取意义,将展示一系列反映现代英国不同视角的观点,研究艺术家与景观和社会历史的关系,将其作为行动和抗议的刺激因素。它向世界展示了英国及其不同民族和景观的激进和外向的形象。这些对话提供了一个难得的机会来重新规划泰特的景观艺术藏品,以及探索我们如何与自然沟通,并共同致力于一个更可持续和公平的未来。



