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The languages of landscape

Author: Mark W Roskill
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In The Languages of Landscape, Mark Roskill employs a new approach to understanding Western landscape art, from antiquity to the present, by linking the concerns of its creators to the ways in which such art was viewed in successive periods or contexts. Roskill uses new methodologies deriving from sociology, anthropology, the study of rhetorical theory, and especially a version of visual semiotics for this  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mark W Roskill
ISBN: 0271015535 9780271015538
OCLC Number: 33132187
Description: xiii, 289 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Contents: 1. Landscape and Language, Landscape and Literature --
2. Pragmatics of the Creative Process --
3. The Developing Appeal of Landscape, 1750-1830 --
4. Tropologies of the Nineteenth Century --
5. Etymologies of Modern Purpose and Practice.
Responsibility: Mark Roskill.

Abstract:

"In The Languages of Landscape, Mark Roskill employs a new approach to understanding Western landscape art, from antiquity to the present, by linking the concerns of its creators to the ways in which such art was viewed in successive periods or contexts. Roskill uses new methodologies deriving from sociology, anthropology, the study of rhetorical theory, and especially a version of visual semiotics for this analysis." "The discussion covers artists not usually associated with landscape, such as Goya and Gericault, as well as major figures such as Bruegel and Durer. Roskill ranges over topics of current interest such as the gendering of art; art in the service of colonialism; popularized uses of landscape; and the imagery of war-scarred countryside. He addresses issues of intertextuality; audience awareness; response to social and industrial developments; the tropologies of rhetoric as they apply to visual imagery; and the problematic status of landscape art in this century."--BOOK JACKET.

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