Landscape and Western Art

This book debates the concept of landscape and explores particular periods and national traditions over the past 500 years of Western Landscape Art in painting, photography, garden design, Land Art, and other forms of expression. It aims to stimulate a rethinking of assumptions about landscape and art; it is partly a stock-taking, in reviewing and discussing recent theorization about landscape, and it highlights the extent to which landscape aesthetics involve a wide range of non art-historical disciplines.