Landscape History and Theory: from Subject Matter to Analytical Tool

Authors

  • Jan Birksted

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v8i2.109

Abstract

This essay explores how landscape history can engage methodologically with the adjacent disciplines of art history and visual/cultural studies. Central to the methodological problem is the mapping of the beholder - spatially, temporally and phenomenologically. In this mapping process, landscape history is transformed from subject matter to analytical tool. As a result, landscape history no longer simply imports and applies ideas from other disciplines but develops its own methodologies to engage and influence them. Landscape history, like art history, thereby takes on a creative cultural presence. Through that process, landscape architecture and garden design regains the cultural power now carried by the arts and museum studies, and has an effect on the innovative capabilities of contemporary landscape design.

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Published

01-10-2003

How to Cite

Birksted, J. (2003). Landscape History and Theory: from Subject Matter to Analytical Tool. Landscape Review, 8(2), 4–28. https://doi.org/10.34900/lr.v8i2.109

Issue

Vol 8, No 2 (2003)

Section

Reflection

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