Escape the Landscape
Octavian Eşanu
Landscape—as a genre, medium, or form of representation, as uncultivated or
cultivated, formed...
Militant Landscape: Notes on Counter-Figuration from Early Modern Genre Formation to Contemporary Practices, or, Landscape after the Failure of Representation
Jaleh Mansoor
In 1844, the year of Marx's Philosophical and Economic Manuscripts, J.M.W. Turner presented Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway, the first...
Reframing Landscape
W. J. T. Mitchell
“Reframing Landscape” explores three distinct landscapes that have been decisively impacted by conquest and colonization, reframed by three artistic interventions: painting, photography, and sculpture. August...
Fury and the Landscape Film: Three Men Who Left Their Will on Concrete
Julia Alekseyeva
In the 1960s, Japanese artists and filmmakers directed their fury against the sterile urban landscapes which surrounded them. The “Theory of Landscape,” developed by Matsuda...
A Room with a landscape: Vedute from the Palace of the Privileged Company of Trieste and Rijeka
Fokus Grupa
In the oldest Austro-Hungarian sugar refinement plant opened in mid 18thcentury in Rijeka, today Croatia, a series of “idealized” landscapes pained by unknown artisans include...
Introduction to “City as Landscape” (1970) by Matsuda Masao (1933–2020)
Franz Prichard
This introduction to Masao Matsuda’s essay, “The City as Landscape,” provides an outline of the essay’s role in the emergence of a radical discourse of...
Landscape and Its Double: The Technological Sublime
Angela Harutyunyan
The essay inquires about the historical condition of representation in our present while invoking the modern experience of the sublime and landscape as the medium...
