The Wolfsonian–FIU Presents: Alternative Landscapes in the Modern Era

The Big World, focusing on depictions of the land in The Wolfsonian's collection, challenges expectations of landscape art as it goes beyond bucolic scenes to reveal changing vistas of the modern era rendered in paintings, the decorative arts, and even a grand piano. The exhibition charts a course through the end of the 19th century and into the first half of the 20th, outlining the story of global growth and shifting ideas about the world around us—from pristine nature, to its radical alteration in modern urban and industrial centers, to panoramas ruined by war and environmental disregard.

Presented in connection with Bridge Deconstruction Site  and The Breath Eaters.

By ML Staff. Courtesy of The Wolfsonian–FIU