- Main
- Society, Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences
- Landscape and Power
Landscape and Power
W.J.T. MitchellHow much do you like this book?
What’s the quality of the file?
Download the book for quality assessment
What’s the quality of the downloaded files?
Landscapes, whether in pictures or the world, have been viewed as a genre, treated as texts, interpreted as allegory.Landscape and Powergoes beyond these approaches to ask not just what landscape "is" or "means" but what itdoes, how it works as a cultural practice. The original essays in this volume consider landscapes not merely as visual or textual symbols but as sources of social and personal identities.
In the opening essay, W. J. T. Mitchell examines the ways in which the concept of landscape functions in the discourse of imperialism, from Chinese imperial landscape to views of contested territory in New Zealand and Israel. The following essays—by Ann Jensen Adams, Ann Bermingham, Elizabeth Helsinger, David Bunn, Joel Snyder, and Charles Harrison—range from Dutch landscape and the formation of national identity to picturesque landscape and the process of political silencing and legitimation. Other topics include Turner's "tourist landscapes" as reflections on the conditions of political representation, American landscape photography and the "professionalizing" of the frontier, "domestic" British landscapes transferred to South Africa in the nineteenth century, and forms of resistance to ideology in modernist landscape painting.
In the opening essay, W. J. T. Mitchell examines the ways in which the concept of landscape functions in the discourse of imperialism, from Chinese imperial landscape to views of contested territory in New Zealand and Israel. The following essays—by Ann Jensen Adams, Ann Bermingham, Elizabeth Helsinger, David Bunn, Joel Snyder, and Charles Harrison—range from Dutch landscape and the formation of national identity to picturesque landscape and the process of political silencing and legitimation. Other topics include Turner's "tourist landscapes" as reflections on the conditions of political representation, American landscape photography and the "professionalizing" of the frontier, "domestic" British landscapes transferred to South Africa in the nineteenth century, and forms of resistance to ideology in modernist landscape painting.
Categories:
Year:
1994
Edition:
Paperback
Publisher:
University Of Chicago Press
Language:
english
Pages:
248
ISBN 10:
0226532070
ISBN 13:
9780226532073
File:
PDF, 27.68 MB
Your tags:
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 1994
The file will be sent to your email address. It may take up to 1-5 minutes before you receive it.
The file will be sent to you via the Telegram messenger. It may take up to 1-5 minutes before you receive it.
Note: Make sure you have linked your account to Z-Library Telegram bot.
The file will be sent to your Kindle account. It may take up to 1–5 minutes before you receive it.
Please note: you need to verify every book you want to send to your Kindle. Check your mailbox for the verification email from Amazon Kindle.
Conversion to is in progress
Conversion to is failed
Premium benefits
- Send to eReaders
- Increased download limit
- File converter
- More search results
- More benefits