Landscape and Western Art |
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| Author:
| Andrews, Malcolm |
| Series title: | Oxford History of Art Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-284233-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $40.86AUD $51.95 |
Book Description:
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This book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression. It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a wide range of non...
More DescriptionThis book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression. It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a wide range of non art-historical disciplines.