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If a river runs through it, somewhere there is bound to be a bridge. Little in the landscape remains untouched by human hands, and every touch, from the simplest ditch to the most intricate monument, reveals a political decision or design. This is how Martin Warnke, one of Germany's leading art historians, looks at landscape in this book, which leads to a new way of seeing nature as we have appropriated, represented, and transformed it over time. Covering nearly a thousand years and most of western Europe, Political Landscape provides a compelling summary history of modern humanity's ill-fated attempt to master nature.
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Political landscape : the art history of nature, Martin aut Warnke, David McLintock
- Language
- Released
- 1994
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Political landscape : the art history of nature
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Martin aut Warnke, David McLintock
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 168
- ISBN10
- 0948462639
- ISBN13
- 9780948462634
- Series
- Collection
- Essays in art and culture
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Historical Themes, History, Art, Art History & Criticism, History of Art
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- If a river runs through it, somewhere there is bound to be a bridge. Little in the landscape remains untouched by human hands, and every touch, from the simplest ditch to the most intricate monument, reveals a political decision or design. This is how Martin Warnke, one of Germany's leading art historians, looks at landscape in this book, which leads to a new way of seeing nature as we have appropriated, represented, and transformed it over time. Covering nearly a thousand years and most of western Europe, Political Landscape provides a compelling summary history of modern humanity's ill-fated attempt to master nature.