Landscape and power

Abstract

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.

Contents

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.