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Landscape as World Picture 1st edition
Jacob Wamberg
Landscape as World Picture 1st edition
Jacob Wamberg
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This book presents a new and comprehensive theory concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. Its point of departure is a hitherto unexplored developmental pattern that characterises landscape representation from Palaeolithic cave paintings through to 19th-century modernity. A structuralist comparison between this pattern and three additional fields of analysis - self-consciousness, socially-determined perception of nature, and world picture - reveals a fascinating insight into culture's macrohistorical organisation. Controversially, this book argues that culture at a certain level of observation is marked by directional evolution.
Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images
Media | Books Bound Book (Bound book with hard cover in high quality) |
Specielt cover | Indbundet |
Released | June 26, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9788779342873 |
Publishers | Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Genre | Culture, Misc. |
Pages | 1099 |
Dimensions | 185 × 252 × 85 mm · 2.98 kg |
Language | English |
Original language | English |
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