A Touch Of Red
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
A Touch Of Red
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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The question of the various meanings which 'Landscape' and its cognate terms in the Germanic languages has acquired from the Middle Ages till present times is not just a question of etymological curiosity; it reflects, among others, the history of conflicts between local and centralized power in emerging European nation-states (a subject discussed in depth by Kenneth Olwig in publications listed below) and also changing approaches to landscape within Geography and within the Arts. Moreover, the story of the various meanings of the English word landscape makes up an interesting example of "dynamic construal" of meaning.
It is widely accepted in the literature that "In Europe the concept of landscape and the words for it in both Romance and Germanic languages emerged around the turn of the sixteenth century to denote a painting whose primary subject matter was natural scenery (Punter 1982; Cosgrove 1993)"
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