{Utopian Landscapes [continued (3)]}*[28th April 1991]

[Redbook9:199-200][19910428:0955n]{Utopian Landscapes [continued (3)]}*[28th April 1991]

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Similar comments apply to early Utopias as to early Landscapes:* we can’t be certain that there weren’t more of them, but we can be reasonably certain of knowing about any after c[irca]500CE at the latest. (I don’t think [St.] Augustine’s ‘City of God’ is in the category, utopia).** Between literary utopias the correlation seems fairly close, and is presumably a part of the revolutionary temper of the times; the correlation of landscapes with early landscape murals is not so close, but still remarkable; and the restriction of all these expressions to within or just outside the [2048]G~ quarter-circle stands out very clearly.***

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*[See last previous ts journal but one, [Redbook9:198][19910428:0955l]{Utopian Landscapes}*[28th April 1991]]

**{cf [[Redbook9:187][19910424:0902d]{The Renaissance}[24th April 1991],] 187 ([&]m[n])}

***{cf [[Redbook9:295][19910507:0915#]{Portraiture, Landscape and ‘Marines’ in Protestant England}[28th April 1991],] 295;

X:[] 50-51;

XII: [] 284}

****{Is there a link between these manifestations and the emigratory impulse itself? Mass migration and settlement happens on the M~ semicircle also (or at least the S~ quarter-circle), but is perhaps more spontaneous and peaceful(??), more inclined towards settlement and improvement, on the G~ half-circle (/R~ quarter-circle); more planned and aggressive, more inclined towards conquest, rule, and exploitation, on the M~ half[-circle] / S~ quarter[-circle]. R~, of course, leads on to S~....}

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