Landscape and Western Art

This book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression. It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a wide range of non
art-historical disciplines.

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<br>"A splendid text ... with images both celebrated and startling, he shows landscape as a contruction, a theatre in which humans act and enjoy seeing themselves act."--Professor Richard Thomson, Edinburgh University<p><br>"A very accomplished surveyof a notoriously complex and elusive subject ... nothing--not even words like 'environment' and 'art' is left unquestioned."--Andrew Wilton, Keeper and Senior Research Fellow, Tate Gallery<p><br>"Highly intelligent ... it insists that hte making of landscape is inseperable from the history of the moment of its production, but also recognizes the intense personal experiences that motivate it."--Professor John House, Courtauld Institute of Art<p><br>

(Oxford)

1. Introduction.: Land into Landscape; 2. Landscape and Terza Natura; 3. Subject or Setting? Landscape in C15 and C16 Painting; 4. Topography and the Beau Ideal; 5. Framing the View; 6. The Sublime; 7. Political Landscape; 8. Nature as Picture or Process?; 9. Landscape and the Art Gallery; Notes; List of Illustrations; Bibliographic Essay; Timeline; Index

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