Recovering the substantive nature of landscape

Abstract

This chapter seeks to recover the substantive depth of meaning of landscape and its implications for our understanding of society/nature relations. The full complexity of the ideas of landscape and nature has been largely lost due to a modern tendency to appropriate the meaning of landscape to a concept of nature as scenery. The chapter considers substantive meaning of landscape through an historical and geographical analysis of the transformations of meaning undergone by the concepts of landscape and nature. When one examines the social and historical context of the sixteenth-century origins of Northern European landscape art, it becomes clearer why the term Landschaft should have become attached to a genre of painting that became popular with the people of Northern Europe. A full understanding of the modern English concept of landscape requires attention to both the preservation of continuities and the process of redefinition.

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