Question: Is it possible to understand landscape as both a place and a way of seeing?
Answer: Landscape is an ambiguous term that has many meanings, the art historian W.T.J Mitchell (1994) summarises the complex meanings that make up the term: “Landscape is a natural scene mediated by culture. It is both represented and presented space, both signifier and signified, both a frame and what a frame contains, both a real place and a simulacrum, both a package and a commodity in the package” therefore landscape is both a place and a way of seeing.
Landscape is a complex term yet in a broad sense can refer to the general look of a place, it can also be used to indicate the solid form of the built environment and as I have already mentioned it can be a form of representation, in the way it may “represent” some history, control, development or decline of an area or region....(short extract)
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- Subject: Creative Arts and Design
- Course: Creative Arts and Design General
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 65%
- Words: 2535
- Date submitted: March 06, 2009
- Date written: February, 2004
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 914
