Main entry:

Casey, Edward S., 1939-

Title & Author:

Representing place : landscape painting and maps / Edward S. Casey.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002.

Description:

xx, 366 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-345) and index.
Prologue: What Does It Mean to Represent Landscape? -- pt. 1: Painting the Land -- From Landskip to Landscape -- Finding Place for the Elemental -- Apocalyptic and Contemplative Sublimity -- Pursuing the Natural Sublime : Thomas Cole's The Oxbow -- Representing a Region : East Anglia in the Eyes of John Constable -- Representing Place Elsewhere : Northern Sung Landscape Painting -- INTERLUDE: Material Conditions of Representing Place in Landscape Painting -- pt. 2: Mapping the Land -- First Considerations -- Cartography and Chorography -- Discursive and Presentational Symbolism in Maps : the Revealing Case of Portolan Charts -- Far-out Mapping -- Rectangularity and Truth -- pt. 3: Re-implacement in Mapping and Painting -- Re-presenting Representation -- Epilogue: Landscape Experienced and Re-presented.

Summary:

"You are here, a map declares, but of course you are not, any more than you truly occupy the vantage point into which a landscape painting puts you. How maps and paintings figure and reconfigure space--as well as our place in it--is the subject of Edward S. Casey's study, an exploration of how we portray the world and its many places. Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language--a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject."--Jacket

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ISBN:

0816637148
9780816637140
0816637156
9780816637157

Subject:

Cole, Thomas 1801-1848
Constable, John 1776-1837
Landscape painting.
Map drawing.
Peinture de paysages.
Geschichte
Karte
Kartografie
Landschaftsmalerei
Raumdarstellung
Zeichnung
Landschapschilderkunst.
Cartografie.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221075
Call No.: ND1340 .C3 2002
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available