The project explores the interaction between everyday life and attempts to arrange the environment spatially. It thus analyzes a test case of the cultural, social, and political significance of form as defined and promoted in literature and landscape design. In particular, it emphasizes the ways in which landlords of various stripes, from the Tsar to a local country squire, enlist landscape design in an attempt to represent themselves, to buttress their legitimacy as landowners and often serf masters, and to foreground their role as agents of enlightenment and culture.
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Andreas Schonle, of the University of Michigan, was a 2002-03 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) [8] fellow.
