书籍 Landscape and Space的封面

Landscape and Space

Jaś Elsner (ed)

出版时间

2021-12-01

ISBN

9780192845955

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the archaeologically-accessed visual cultures of the ancient world. The kinds of reliefs, objects, and paintings discussed here have a significant purchase on matters concerned with landscape and space in the visual sphere, but were discovered within archaeological contexts and by means of excavation. Through case studies focused on the invention of wilderness imagery in ancient China, the relation of monuments to landscape in ancient Greece, the place of landscape painting in Mesoamerican Maya art, and the construction of sacred landscape across Eurasia between Stonehenge and the Silk Road via Pompeii, this book emphasises the importance of thinking about models of landscape in ancient art, as well as the value of comparative approaches in underlining core aspects of the topic. Notably, it explores questions of space, both actual and conceptual, including how space is configured through form and representation.

目录
Introduction: Landscape and Space, Jaś Elsner
1. Inventing Wilderness: The Birth of Landscape Representation in China, Wu Hung
2. Statues, Stelai, and Turning-Posts in Greece, ca. 565-ca. 465 BE: The Limits of Iconography, Richard Neer
3. Locating Landscape in Maya Painting, Claudia Brittenham
4. Space-Object-Landscape: Sacred and 'Sacro-Idyllic' from Dunhuang via Stonehenge to Roman Wall-Painting, Jaś Elsner
用户评论
个人其实觉得,本卷的methodological work有很多值得琢磨的地方,单单读一遍还不够思考。也许可惜的不是只有四篇自成一体的文章,而是将来此类文集应该再加一个圆桌环节,进一步相互反思和对话。
选文还是挺用心的,虽是不同领域的学者,但所用概念和探讨理念间有着千丝万缕的联系,使得这本不厚的册子颇具张力。最喜Neer一篇,讨论作为起点、里程碑、终点、空间划分的碑石(虽然我对开头的符号学分析法不太感冒),这些statues、stelai的存在重构了景色的意义,恰与青铜器一文中谈到的、分割天人两界的建筑物彼此呼应。然而,这种以人造物区分空间之意义的方式很大程度上仍延续了Rostovtzeff将空间的意义严格等同于monumentum的意义的做法——而这种极有可能导向民族主义的风景观正是Elsner一文所警惕的。风景不一定仅因人文物件的存在才值得入画,它们也可能如Stonehenge那样,在漫长的历史中成为不可分割的自然的一部分。(写不下的部分见转发)
为了避免前比较的陷阱,今比较采用了各说各话各地并列的尬路数,😮‍💨