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The aim of this book is to change “landscape” from a noun to a verb. It asks that we think of landscape, not as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as a process by which social and subjective identities are formed. The study of landscape has gone through two major shifts in this century: the first (associated with modernism) attempted to read the history of landscape primarily on the basis of a history of landscape painting, and to narrativize that history as a progressive movement toward purification of die visual field;1 the second (associated with postmodernism) tended to decenter the role of painting and pure formal visuallity in favor of a semiotic and hermeneutic approach that treated landscape as an allegory of psychological or ideological themes.
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