The Place of Landscape – Concepts, Contexts, Studies (The MIT Press) - Hardcover

Malpas, Jeff; Kort, Wesley; Bradley, John; Schatzki, Theodore R.; Casey, Edward S

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9780262015523: The Place of Landscape – Concepts, Contexts, Studies (The MIT Press)

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ISBN 10: 0262015528 ISBN 13: 9780262015523

Publisher: MIT Press, 2011

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Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place. This volume explores the conceptual "topography" of landscape: It examines the character of landscape as itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines explore the concept of landscape, including its supposed relation to the spectatorial, its character as time-space, its relation to indigenous notions of "country," and its liminality. They examine landscape as it appears within a variety of contexts, from geography through photography and garden history to theology; and more specific studies look at the forms of landscape in medieval landscape painting, film and television, and in relation to national identity. The essays demonstrate that the study of landscape cannot be restricted to any one genre, cannot be taken as the exclusive province of any one discipline, and cannot be exhausted by any single form of analysis. What the place of landscape now evokes is itself a wide-ranging terrain encompassing issues concerning the nature of place, of human being in place, and of the structures that shape such being and are shaped by it.

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Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Latrobe University. He is the author of Heidegger's Topology: Being, Place, World and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place: Explorations in the Topology of Being, both published by the MIT Press. Ross Gibson is Professor of Contemporary Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney.

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