Landscape and Power

By: W. J. Mitchell

Book Overview

Landscapes, whether in pictures or the world, have been viewed as a genre, treated as texts, interpreted as allegory. Landscape and Power goes beyond these approaches to ask not just what landscape "is" or "means" but what it does, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226532070
• ISBN13: 9780226532073
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"