Landscape and Power

Name: Landscape and Power
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ISBN: 9780226532066

ISBN-10: 0226532062

ISBN-13: 9780226532066

Edition: 1994

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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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,…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/16/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Imperial Landscape




Competing Communities in the "Great Bog of Europe": Identity and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting




System, Order, and Abstraction: The Politics of English Landscape Drawing around 1795




Turner and the Representation of England




"Our Wattled Cot": Mercantile and Domestic Space in Thomas Pringle's African Landscapes




Territorial Photography




The Effects of Landscape



Contributors


Index