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Editor: This is an untitled landscape print by Alexander Cozens. I’m really struck by its almost theatrical, stage-like composition. What aspects of its context do you find most compelling? Curator: I see this landscape as deeply embedded in the Romantic era's evolving relationship with nature. How does its sublime aesthetic, this juxtaposition of grandeur and fragility, reflect broader societal shifts in power and perception? Editor: So, it’s less about representing nature realistically and more about...using it? Curator: Precisely. Consider how landscape imagery often served to legitimize colonial expansion. The ‘untamed’ wilderness became a canvas for projecting dominance. Does this image, with its figures dwarfed by the landscape, challenge or reinforce that power dynamic? Editor: I hadn't thought of that. Now I see it as less of a pretty picture, and more of a…statement. Curator: Exactly. Art is never neutral.