Landscape and Power - 2nd Revised Edition

Informationen zum Autor W. J. T. Mitchell , the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, is the editor of Critical Inquiry and author of several books, including The Last Dinosaur Book , also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext When first published, Landscape and Power reshaped the direction of landscape studies, considering 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 not only a new preface, but also five new essays-from Edward Said, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jonathan Bordo, Michael Taussig, and Robert Pogue Harrison-extending the scope of the book in remarkable ways. Zusammenfassung This work! originally published in 1994! reshapes the direction of landscape studies by considering 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 identity.

Product details

• Authors: W J T Mitchell, W. J. T. Mitchell, W. J. Thomas Mitchell
• Assisted by: W J T Mitchell (Editor), W. J. T. Mitchell (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2002
• EAN: 9780226532059
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53205-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 227 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes, Nature in art