Landscape and Power, Second Edition

Synopsis This Text Considers 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 A New Preface And Five New Essays. Imperial Landscape / W.j.t. Mitchell -- Competing Communities In The Great Bog Of Europe : Identity And Seventeenth-century Dutch Landscape Painting / Ann Jensen Adams -- System, Order, And Abstraction : The Politics Of English Landscape Drawing Around 1795 / Ann Bermingham -- Turner And The Representation Of England / Elizabeth Helsinger -- Our Wattled Cot : Mercantile And Domestic Space In Thomas Pringle's African Landscapes / David Bunn -- Territorial Photography / Joel Snyder -- The Effects Of Landscape / Charles Harrison -- Invention, Memory, And Place / Edward W. Said -- Holy Landscape : Israel, Palestine, And The American Wilderness / W.j.t. Mitchell -- Picture And Witness At The Site Of The Wilderness / Jonathan Bordo -- The Beach (a Fantasy) / Michael Taussig -- Hic Jacet / Robert Pogue Harrison. Edited By W.j.t. Mitchell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.