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The Place of Landscape : Concepts, Contexts, Studies.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262295840
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Place of LandscapeDDC classification:
  • 700.46
LOC classification:
  • BH301.L3 -- P48 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Concepts of Landscape -- 1 Place and the Problem of Landscape -- 2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation -- 3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land" -- 4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena -- 5 The Edge(s) of Landscape -- II Contexts for Landscape -- 6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster -- 7 The Political Meaning of Landscape -- 8 Entry and Distance -- 9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape -- 10 Garden, City, or Wilderness? -- III Studies in Landscape -- 11 "All foreground without distance" -- 12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film -- 13 Searching for a Place in the World -- 14 Framing the Landscape -- 15 This Green Unpleasant Land -- 16 The Lie of the Land -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Concepts of Landscape -- 1 Place and the Problem of Landscape -- 2 "Landscape" as a Kind of Place-Relation -- 3 "Whitefellas Have to Learn about Country, It Is Not Just Land" -- 4 Landscapes as Temporalspatial Phenomena -- 5 The Edge(s) of Landscape -- II Contexts for Landscape -- 6 Geographic Landscapes and Natural Disaster -- 7 The Political Meaning of Landscape -- 8 Entry and Distance -- 9 Reinterpreting the Picturesque in the Experience of Landscape -- 10 Garden, City, or Wilderness? -- III Studies in Landscape -- 11 "All foreground without distance" -- 12 Landscapes of Class in Contemporary Chinese Film -- 13 Searching for a Place in the World -- 14 Framing the Landscape -- 15 This Green Unpleasant Land -- 16 The Lie of the Land -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Interdisciplinary perspectives on landscape, from the philosophical to the geographical, with an emphasis on the overarching concept of place.

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