Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things; in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes; and in particular to their representation in painting; to present a powershy;ful synthetic work.Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses; which; though distinct; continually intersect in the course of the book. The first consists of extended analyses of distinctive landscapes from four exemplary painters; Paul Cezanne; Caspar David Friedrich; Paul Klee; and Guo Xi. Sallis then turns to these artshy;istsrsquo; own writingsmdash;treatises; essays; and lettersmdash;about art in general and landscape painting in particular; and he sets them into a philosophical context. The third kind of analysis draws both on Sallisrsquo;s theoretical writings and on the canonical texts in the philosophy of art (Kant; Schelling; Hegel; and Heidegger). These analyses present for a wide audience a profound sense of landscape and of the earthly abode of the human.
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