Titre et auteur:

Landscape and power / edited by W.J.T. Mitchell.

Édition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.

Description:

xv, 376 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Imperial landscape / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Competing communities in the "great bog of Europe" : identity and seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting / Ann Jensen Adams -- System, order, and abstraction : the politics of English landscape drawing around 1795 / Ann Bermingham -- Turner and the representation of England / Elizabeth Helsinger -- "Our wattled cot" : mercantile and domestic space in Thomas Pringle's African landscapes / David Bunn -- Territorial photography / Joel Snyder -- The effects of landscape / Charles Harrison -- Invention, memory, and place / Edward W. Said -- Holy landscape : Israel, Palestine, and the American wilderness / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Picture and witness at the site of the wilderness / Jonathan Bordo -- The beach (a fantasy) / Michael Taussig -- Hic jacet / Robert Pogue Harrison.

Résumé:

This text considers landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities. This edition adds a new preface and five new essays.

Ressources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226532054 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780226532059 (paper ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Landscapes in art.
Pastoral art.
Art Political aspects.
Paysages dans l'art.
Pastorales (Art)
Art Aspect politique.
political art.
Beeldende kunsten.
Landschappen.

Vedettes secondaires:

Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942-

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 222406
Cote: N8205 .L3 2002
Statut: Disponible