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[ah-GRES-tik] 
1. characteristic of the fields or country, especially behavior or environment that is uncouth, unpolished, or rustic: "The agrestic decor of her restaurant foretold large, unpretentious, calorie-laden meals."
Origin:
From Latin, 'agrestis,' from 'ager': field (genitive 'agri'), which is related to the root 'agro-': field. In action:
"Paul Shambroom's exploration into systems of power has led him to agrestic town council meetings where local officials don jeans and consume Diet Coke. Setting up an affinity with aristocratic and ruling class portraiture, Shambroom's photographs are frontal depictions of local leaders gathered around impromptu-looking meeting tables. By digitally printing the images on canvas he underscores his relationship to history painting. The austere rooms, bearing the prefabricated imprints of concrete blocks and faux wood paneling, where these meetings are held are typically outfitted with American flags, old portraits of previous council members, coffee creamer and a local-business wall calendar. Of the seven artists included in 'ExtraOrdinary,' Shambroom's series 'The Meeting Projects' (1999) best captures an 'American' sensibility of place. The work continues the early twentieth-century chronicling of unseen America while contributing to the genre of contemporary photographic portraiture, ironically recording undignified yet prevalent locations of civic power."
Michelle Grabner. "Specters of the ordinary. [Review of 'ExtraOrdinary: American Place in Recent Photography, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin'] Afterimage (March, 2002).
"Village sociopolitical structure distinguished sharply between those who paid land taxes and the landless laborers who worked the fields, with the latter being in positions of agrestic slavery. Wealthier members of rural society found strong motivations to invest their wealth in irrigation and land-clearing activities, or to patronize temple complexes. Until the end of this period, when Chola expansion of trade fostered the growth of cities and the need for a monetary economy to move agricultural surplus to the cities, villages had relatively little connection to the larger society."
"South India," The Encyclopedia of World History (2001).
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