Scott MacDonald presented a paper at "Microlandscapes: Landscape Culture on the Move, an Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Dynamics of Landscape Concepts," held May 11 to 13 at Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Muenster, Germany. The symposium brought together landscape theorists, landscape architects, landscape historians from several countries for a three-day interchange.
MacDonald's paper, "Gardens of Time," argued that the recent history of landscape filmmaking in the United States, on one hand, sustains crucial aspects of the Hudson River School of 19th Century American landscape painting and its depiction of American place; and on the other, offers a new sense of the "Garden" as less a place than an alternative sense of time.
