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The third chapter explores how the epic structure of the Desert Cantos challenges the narrative function of traditional and recent American landscape representations.

It specifically considers narrative strategies in the work of select late nineteenth-century American landscape painters and Western photographers, and in the recent desert photography of groups like The New Topographics, Rephotographic Survey Project, and The Center For Land Use Interpretation. By considering the narrative character of the landscape documents of Robert Smithson and Edward Ruscha, the fourth chapter argues that their conception of landscape as a temporal rather than a pictorial construct is elaborated by the epic structure of Misrach's project.

The conclusion explores the notion of landscape proposed by the Desert Cantos and the question raised by the use of the epic form for its construction: Is landscape representation possible in the aftermath of the holocaust of nature? This work is licensed under a CC0 1. Skip to main content. It takes lot of courage and sincerity to accept the fact that we humans have been destroying the planet.

Photography of most people is focussed on capturing "what is left" of this "beautiful planet" and not the violence of man on its surroundings. Desert Cantos is a great book that focuses on human conquest of deserts and the consequential damage. As the author puts it in the afterword - "The world is as terrible as it is beautiful, but when you look more closely, it is as beautiful as it is terr It takes lot of courage and sincerity to accept the fact that we humans have been destroying the planet.

As the author puts it in the afterword - "The world is as terrible as it is beautiful, but when you look more closely, it is as beautiful as it is terrible. In the essay, Banham says "In guilt or despair, we try to block out these manifestations of our presence, and lift up our eyes unto the hills beyond - hoping that they, at least, will still look something like the work of Ansel Adams" Everything we try to photograph stops being pristine.

Man can never separate himself from the wilderness any more. There is none left! A great set of photographs buttressed by introductory essay to rethink how our actions have affected our surroundings and still we try to avoid photographing them. Danielle rated it really liked it Jul 12, Thoma rated it it was amazing Mar 10, Ember August rated it liked it Jan 02, Vaughn rated it liked it Mar 12, Paul rated it really liked it May 24, Allison rated it it was amazing Feb 04, Dennis rated it it was amazing Jan 20, Robert Christensen rated it really liked it Jan 25, Ann Xiang rated it it was amazing Jun 13, Sara Ott-Wilcox rated it it was amazing Aug 20, Kevin Shlosberg rated it it was amazing Dec 10, A rated it it was amazing Nov 27, Berti83 rated it it was amazing Sep 20, Jennifer Farber rated it it was amazing Feb 25, Tamara Fernanda rated it it was amazing Jan 11, Motivated Light rated it it was amazing Jul 04, Alex Bramford rated it it was amazing Oct 30, Roger rated it liked it Dec 14, Jeremy rated it really liked it Feb 08, Douglas rated it it was amazing Jan 24, Hendrik rated it it was amazing Oct 23, Farhad rated it really liked it Mar 17, PMP marked it as to-read Mar 04, Kate added it Sep 28, Jared marked it as to-read Dec 26, Ching-In marked it as to-read Dec 26, Jim marked it as to-read Sep 21, Ryan marked it as to-read Jul 02, BookDB marked it as to-read Sep 26, Lara Khachooni marked it as to-read Dec 14, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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