Alain De Soto Landscape

After reading Alain De Botton’s, The Art of Travel and viewing De Soto’s discovery of the Mississippi, engraving by Johnson Fry & Co, I believe there is many thing you can take from these texts and many conclusions that we can make. A clear message I took from studying both texts is how views and bias from society that individuals have developed can be represented through landscapes. Real, imagined and remembered landscapes can all cause self-discovery and make us question individual views. As the audience, from these landscapes, we can then deepen our understanding about individuals and the societies from which they can from.
J-K Huysmans and be Botton’s view of travel and new landscapes is greatly influenced by the society from which they come from. Self-discovery of both J-K Huysman and de Botton can be seen through the use of landscape in The Art of travel chapter 1 ‘On Anticipation’. Here they both come to the conclusion that the …show more content…
Through the use of this landscape we can deepen our understanding of the Europeans and the society in which they have come from. The engraving is based off an original painting of Spanish colonisation on the 1500s published by Johnson Fry & Co in 1858. The salient point of the engraving is De Soto and his white horse. This enlarges De Soto and gives him the power and the use of a white horse symbolises the believed purity of De Soto. The use of this landscape makes De Soto seem like he is coming in peace and that it is just going to be a friendly invasion. Where as in real life the Europeans brought disease with them, they took the Americans and used them for slaves and force their religion on to them. The use of this landscape we can understand the society from which William Powel came from and the biased opinions he held. This use of a remembered landscape allows us into the life of individuals and society of the

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