Landscape as always and inevitably a kind of representation executed in a variety of materials and on many surfaces, be they paint on canvas or earth, stone, water, and vegetation on the ground.
Landscape is itself a physical and multisensory medium in which cultural meanings and values are encoded, whether they are put there by the physical transformation of a place in landscape gardening and architecture, or found in a place formed, as we say, by nature. Landscape is already artifice in the moment of its beholding, long before it becomes the subject of pictorial representation. This figuration of landscape situates ‘us’ as dominant over the landscape.
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