Introduction Landscape: Between Place and Space

Abstract

p.22 Landscape as a process "It is a process that attains a form of timelessness and fixity in certain idealized and transcendent situations, such as a painted landscape representation, but which can be achieved only momentarily, if ever, in the human world of social relationships. [...]" p.23 "This is because there is no 'absolute' landscape: the salience and relationship between place and space, inside and outside and image and representation are dependent on the cultural and historical context." p.23 "the tension between tradition and the modern - foreground and background, place and space - appears to be momentarily resolved in a representation that encapsulates the political fiction of a unified nation. There is no absolute landscape here, but a series of related, if contradictory, moemnts - perspectives - which cohere in what can be recognized as a singular form: landscape as a cultural process"