The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments

The Iconography of Landscape draws together fourteen scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the status of landscape as a cultural image. By applying the art-historical method of iconography—interpreting levels of meaning in human artifacts—to landscapes on paper or canvas, in literary form or on the ground, its contributors show how landscape is an important mode of human signification, informed by, and itself informing social, cultural and political issues. The range of examples is w...