Landscape, Association, Empire - Imagining Van Diemen's Land

This book tells a compelling story about invasion, settler colonialism, and an emergent sense of identity in place, as seen through topographical and landscape images by seven fascinating artists. Their ways of imagining the Vandemonian landscape are part of a much larger story about how aesthetic forces shaped empire and colony, place and migration, and people's lives. They remain intriguing through-lines of global significance and local meaning.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Frames, Canvases, and Perspectives.- 3. Mapping and Picturing Worlds: Harris, Evans, Frankland.- 4. Relocation and Return: Lycett and Prout.- 5. Making Home Place: Allport and Meredith.- 6. Reflections and Horizons.

About the author

Philip Hutch is an honorary associate in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania. His research focus is on the intellectual history of pictures of place and landscape and on association and processes of mind.

Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography and in how people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Hutch, Elaine Stratford
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.11.2023
• EAN: 9789819954186
• ISBN: 978-981-9954-18-6
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XXV, 217 p. 62 illus., 59 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories