7.2.2 AESTHETIC AND UTILITARIAN LANDSCAPE
The Danish landscape scholar Ellen Braae has identified the same kind of tensions associated with modern pastoralism in relation to when Denmark in the 18th century was in the middle of an ecological crisis because of an excessive use of the country’s natural resources. In this context’ Braae uses a distinction between the “aesthetic” and the “utilitarian” to describe the emergent split between sense and sensibility, between science and art, which characterized the 18th century, a period in time marked by dawning industrialization, the advance of science, and the Romantic movement. On the one hand, nature was made an object of scientific studies and industrialization; on the other hand, nature was cultivated as a sensuous phenomenon by the arts (Braae 2011).