What is the beholding eye?
In the first of two pieces about landscape and perception, Jane Lovell explores geographer W.S. Meinig’s work on the ways we look at and have relationship with the land – from the fields of Cambridgeshire to a devastated Kent orchard to a ‘wild’ Sussex estuary.
What are the ten different ways that Meinig says we can examine landscape?
As indicated in the title of the essay, Meinig goes on to examine ten different versions of the same, landscape as nature, habitat, artifact, system, problem, wealth, ideology, history, place and aesthetic.
What does it mean to read a landscape?
Read landscapes from the perspective of representation Landscape consists not only of the physical and material elements we encounter in a place, but also therepresentations of these things via texts, including arts, maps, and pictures.
How do you read a landscape?
Six Quick Lessons in How to Read a Landscape
- Play with boundaries. Ben Kasten.
- Look near; see far. Look near to see far.
- Look up, look down. Spring Greeney.
- Compare then and now. Spring Greeney.
- Make and interpret maps.
- Particularize.
- 4 Responses.
What is the value of reading landscapes?
Even the slightest details in a landscape can teach us a lot about how the climate is changing and what we can do to restore the balance between a healthy environment and human activity.
What does landscape mean in reading?
Landscape consists not only of the physical and material elements we encounter in a place, but also therepresentations of these things via texts, including arts, maps, and pictures. Understanding landscape in terms of its representations leads to questions about power and authority.
How do you read landscape?
What it means to read a landscape?
When reading a landscape, people tend to look through a disciplinary lens that reflects their own education and experiences. This perspective can provide depth into your observations, but you should consider other ways of looking at the landscape that reflect different disciplines.