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Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting

Professor Malcolm Andrews · Gresham College

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Constable’s painting The Cornfield celebrates its bicentenary in 2026. How has it aged? This is a landscape that has acquired iconic status – a marker of national identity -- as a representation of typically English countryside. How has that Englishness been constituted in the painting? And how does The Cornfield (a view of a partly working landscape) speak to current ideas about relationships and tensions between the natural world and the human presence, especially in our age of environmental anxieties?

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  1. Constable's "The Cornfield": A Bicentenary Harvesting 2026-01-20 · Audio

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Malcolm Andrews
Year
2026
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Earth and environment, History, Art, architecture and design
Source
Gresham College
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