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Knowledge of the cultural and philosophical origins of the landscape as a modern aesthetic phenomenon; the capacity to recognize and value the role of the landscape in the history of painting and to put it in relationship with the achievement of the modern subjectivity.

The seminar aims to approach the issue of landscape from an interdisciplinary perspective, named as ‘geo-philosophy’, and to determinate its esthetic invention at the beginning of modernity. The seminar will especially illustrate the role of  landscape in  modern painting through the explanation of significant pictures and emphasize the fundamental relationship between the artistic consideration of landscape and the achievement of the modern subjectivity.

Slides and illustration of paintings, report, discussions

Papers and houseworks

-          G. Simmel (1913): Philosophie der Landschaft

-          H. Lehmann (1950): Physiognomie der Landschaft

-          H. Lützeler (1950): Vom Wesen der Landschaftmalerei

-          J. Ritter (1963): Landschaft. Zur Funktion des Ästhetischen in der modernen Gesellschaft

-          A. Berque (1995): Le raisons du paysagede la Chine antique aux environnements de synthèse

-          A. Roger (1997): Court traité du paysage

-          M. Besse (2000): Voire la Terre. Six essais sur le paysage et la géographie

More references will be given during the course.

Necessary registration by mail within 22.3.2015 for students who want to present a paper