This Text Considers Landscape Not Simply As An Object To Be Seen Or A Text To Be Read, But As An Instrument Of Cultural Force, A Central Tool In The Creation Of National And Social Identities. This Edition Adds A New Preface And Five New Essays. Imperial Landscape / W.j.t. Mitchell -- Competing Communities In The Great Bog Of Europe : Identity And Seventeenth-century Dutch Landscape Painting / Ann Jensen Adams -- System, Order, And Abstraction : The Politics Of English Landscape Drawing Around 1795 / Ann Bermingham -- Turner And The Representation Of England / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Our Wattled Cot : Mercantile And Domestic Space In Thomas Pringle's African Landscapes / David Bunn -- Territorial Photography / Joel Snyder -- The Effects Of Landscape / Charles Harrison -- Invention, Memory, And Place / Edward W. Said -- Holy Landscape : Israel, Palestine, And The American Wilderness / W.j.t. Mitchell -- Picture And Witness At The Site Of The Wilderness / Jonathan Bordo -- The Beach (a Fantasy) / Michael Taussig -- Hic Jacet / Robert Pogue Harrison. Edited By W.j.t. Mitchell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- History & Criticism
- Movements & Periods
- History & Criticism
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Author : Mitchell, W.j.t
Language : English
Edition : Second
Published :2002-04-15
Number Of Pages : 383
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0226532054
ISBN-13 : 9780226532059
Item weight : 1.46 lb
Dimensions : 0.89 in x 6 in x 9 in
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