Landscape Histories: Mapping Environmental and Ecological Change Through the Landscape Art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia
Landscape Histories: Mapping Environmental and Ecological Change Through the Landscape Art of the Swan River Region of Western Australia
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景观历史：通过西澳大利亚天鹅河地区的景观艺术绘制环境和生态变化图
DOI：
10.3197/096734008x303728
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
I. Mclean
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作者：
A. Gaynor;I. Mclean
关于过去的生态环境，景观艺术作品能告诉我们什么？本文描述了一种系统地记录景观艺术品的美学、生态和环境含量的方法的初步研究。使用数据库软件，可以识别和评估审美标准(如风格)和环境内容(如植被特征)之间的关系，我们调查了西澳大利亚州天鹅河地区1827至1950年间创作的景观艺术品。该数据库首先填充了对选定艺术品的美学和生态调查，然后对数据进行分析，以确定易于接受历史解释的生态变化模式。这种解释的准确性得到了对特定地点的更精细的分析的支持，为此，对艺术作品中对环境的描述与书面和摄影资料中的环境描述进行了比较。总的来说，这些艺术品似乎反映了大树盛行和植物区系广泛构成的可能变化，具体地点的研究发现了艺术品和其他来源之间更具体的对应关系。虽然还需要进一步的研究来扩大和验证研究结果，但这些初步结果表明，在环境历史和历史生态的制作中有更广泛地使用美术的余地，这些历史和历史生态越来越多地为生态恢复和管理项目提供信息。
What can works of landscape art tell us about past ecologies? This article de- scribes a pilot study in which a method for systematically recording the aesthetic, ecological and environmental content of landscape artworks was investigated. Using database software that allows for the identification and evaluation of relationships between aesthetic criteria (such as style) and environmental con- tent (such as vegetation characteristics), we surveyed landscape artworks of the Swan River region of Western Australia created between 1827 and 1950. The database was first populated with aesthetic and ecological surveys of selected artworks, then the data was analysed in order to identify patterns of ecological change that are readily amenable to historical explanation. The veracity of such explanations was supported by a more fine-grained analysis of a specific site, for which the depiction of the environment in artworks was compared with that in written and photographic sources. Collectively, the artworks appeared to reflect probable changes in the prevalence of large trees and the broad composition of flora, with the site-specific study finding more specific correspondences between artworks and other sources. Although further research is required in order to expand and verify findings, these initial results suggest that there is scope for more extensive use of fine art in the production of the environmental histories and historical ecologies that increasingly inform ecological restoration and management projects.