DOC Exploring Museum Theatre (American Association for State and Local History) by Tessa Bridal in Arts-Photography

Description

This volume explores the conceptual "topography" of landscape: It examines the character of landscape as itself a mode of place as well as the modes of place that appear in relation to landscape.Leading scholars from a range of disciplines explore the concept of landscape; including its supposed relation to the spectatorial; its character as time-space; its relation to indigenous notions of "country;" and its liminality. They examine landscape as it appears within a variety of contexts; from geography through photography and garden history to theology; and more specific studies look at the forms of landscape in medieval landscape painting; film and television; and in relation to national identity. The essays demonstrate that the study of landscape cannot be restricted to any one genre; cannot be taken as the exclusive province of any one discipline; and cannot be exhausted by any single form of analysis. What the place of landscape now evokes is itself a wide-ranging terrain encompassing issues concerning the nature of place; of human being in place; and of the structures that shape such being and are shaped by it.