The Languages of Landscape

by Mark W. Roskill

In The Languages of Landscape , Mark Roskill employs a new approach to understanding Western landscape art, from antiquity to the present, by linking the concerns of its creators to the ways in which such art was viewed in successive periods or contexts. Roskill uses new methodologies deriving from sociology, anthropology, the study of rhetorical theory, and especially a version of visual semiotics for this analysis. The discussion covers artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015535
• ISBN13: 9780271015538
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 11.3"