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Title The place of landscape : concepts, contexts, studies / edited by Jeff Malpas
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrations
Contents Place and the problem of landscape / Jeff Malpas -- Landscape as a kind of place-relation / Wesley A. Kort -- Whitefellas have to learn about country, it is not just land: how landscape becomes country and not imagined place / John J. Bradley -- Landscapes as temporalspatial phenomena / Theodore R. Schatzki -- The edge(s) of landscape: a study in liminology -- Geographic landscapes and natural disaster / J. Nicholas Entrikin -- The political meaning of landscape (through the lens of Hannah Arendt's The human condition) / Bernard Debarbieux -- Entry and distance: sublimity in landscape / Andrew Benjamin -- Reinterpreting the picturesque in the experience of landscape / Isis Brook -- Garden, city, or wilderness? Landscape and destiny in the Christian imagination / Philip Sheldrake -- All foreground without distance: the rise of landscape in late medieval painting / Reinhard Steiner -- Landscapes of class in contemporary Chinese film: from Yellow Earth to Still life / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Searching for a place in the world: the landscape of Ford's The searchers / Ross Gibson -- Framing the landscape: the anglo-florentine view / Katie Campbell -- This green unpleasant land: landscape and contemporary Britain / Michael Rosenthal -- The lie of the land: reflections on Irish nature and landscape / Nigel Everett
Summary This text provides an interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place
Analysis PHILOSOPHY/General
ARCHITECTURE/Landscape Architecture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-345) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Landscapes.
landscapes (environments)
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
Landscapes
Form Electronic book
Author Malpas, Jeff, editor
LC no. 2010040932
ISBN 9780262295840
0262295849
1283258609
9781283258609
0262294966
9780262294966
9786613258601
6613258601