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    The aim of this book is to change “landscape” from a noun to a verb. It asks that we think of landscape, not as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as a process by which social and subjective identities are formed. The study of landscape has gone through two major shifts in this century: the first (associated with modernism) attempted to read the history of landscape primarily on the basis of a history of landscape painting, and to narrativize that history as a progressive movement toward purification of die visual field;1 the second (associated with postmodernism) tended to decenter the role of painting and pure formal visuallity in favor of a semiotic and hermeneutic approach that treated landscape as an allegory of psychological or ideological themes.

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    The aim of this book is to change “landscape” from a noun to a verb. It asks that we think of landscape, not as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as a process by which social and subjective identities are formed. The study of landscape has gone through two major shifts in this century: the first (associated with modernism) attempted to read the history of landscape primarily on the basis of a history of landscape painting, and to narrativize that history as a progressive movement toward purification of die visual field;1 the second (associated with postmodernism) tended to decenter the role of painting and pure formal visuallity in favor of a semiotic and hermeneutic approach that treated landscape as an allegory of psychological or ideological themes.

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    mNeeweaAND POWER SECOND EDITION Edited by W. J. T. Mitchell THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS + Chicago and London ‘The Unive of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637, ‘The nieny of Chleigo Pret Li, London (© 1994, 2002 by The Unirersiy of Chicago All rights eserves Published 2002 anted fa the United State of Armesca 11.1069 08 07 06 05 06 03 02 12345 ISBN: 0-226 53205-4 ‘COP data ie aval @ The paper ured in chi publication mies the minim sequtements ofthe Ameren National Standard for Information Scences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANS 239 48-1992 Contents Preface'to the Second Edition of Landscape and Power: Space, Place, and Landscape vii W. J.T. MICHELL Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 We JT. MITCHELL 1 Imperial Landscape 5 We dT. MITCHELL 2 Competing Communities in the “Great Bog of Europe”: Identity and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Landscape Painting 35 ANN JENSEN ADAMS 3 System, Order, and Abstraction: The Politics of English Landscape Drawing around 1795.77 ANN BERMINGHAM 4 Tumer and the Representation of England 103 ELIZABETH HELSINGER 5 “Our Wattled Cot”: Mercantile and Domestic Space in ‘Thomas Pringle’s African Landscapes 127 DAVID BUNN 10 cb 2 ‘Territorial Photography 175 JOEL SNYDER ‘The Effects of Landscape 203 CHARLES HARRISON Invention, Memory, and Place 241 EDWARD W. SAID Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness 261 W. J.T. MITCHELL Picture and Witness at the Site of the Wilderness 291 JONATHAN BORDO "The Beach (A Fantasy) 317 MICHAEL TAUSSIG Hic Jacet 349 ROBERT POGUE HARRISON Contributors 365 Index 367

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