Cosgrove, D., 1985, Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea, in: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 10, 10
- Author : Cosgrove, D.
- Year : 1985
- Title English : Prospect, perspective and the evolution of the landscape idea
- Journal/Series : Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : 10
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 10
- Abstract in English : The landscape context is geography has recently been adopted by humanistic writers because of its holistic and subjective implications. But the history of the landscape idea suggests that its origins lie in the renaissance humanists' search for certainty rather than a vehicle of individual subjectivity. Landscape was a 'way of seeing' that was bourgeois, individualist and related to the exercise of power over space. The basic theory and technique of the landscape way of seeing was linear perspective, as important for the history of the graphic image as printing was for that of the written word. ...