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The Perception of Landscape as Central to the Formation of Civilization |
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Authors: |
Moraitis, Konstantinos |
Reviewer: |
Tournikiotis, Panagiotis |
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Abstract: |
Landscape, although it presupposes an autonomous place, ultimately transcends it. It is constituted through the actions of culture—through multiple and interwoven social activities, whether these refer to place from the outset or lead to it as the final field upon which their expression is projected. Some of these activities that directly concern the landscape—such as landscape painting or landscape architecture—have been particularly emphasized and highlighted throughout modern Western history as “culturally” central. They are also associated with agents of official institutional control and centralized economic management, with the interest of the intellectual elite, with science, and with the fine and applied arts. Yet, the definition of landscape extends beyond the official, promoted center of social interest, to those “cultural” practices which, although historically marginalized or obscured, form the broad foundation of social life.
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Technical Editors: |
Kyrkitsou, Nefeli |
Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
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License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/2622 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Moraitis, K. (2015). The Perception of Landscape as Central to the Formation of Civilization [Chapter]. In Moraitis, K. 2015. The art of the landscape [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/2622 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
The art of the landscape |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |