Research Guides: ARTH 305: Landscape/Environment in Art and Visual Culture: Books

Finding Books

Keyword Boolean is useful if you don't know a specific author, title or subject heading for your topic. Choose keywords that best describe your topic, then combine with Boolean operators “and”, “or”, “not” for multi- or complex topics.

Narrow or refine search by adding terms:

burtynsky and landscape
lorrain and criticism

Broaden search by using "or between similar or possible terms (nested in brackets), or using the "?" symbol to truncate to the root of a word for variable word endings (e.g. nouns, adjectives, adverbs, singular or plural):

burtynsky and landscape?
landscape? and (painting? or photography) and (picturesque or sublime)

Use quotes around a multi-word phrase or concept:

"imaginative geographies"
landscape? and (painting? or photography) and "political aspects"
"landscape photography" and exhibition? [e.g. combine with format term]

Limit large result sets by library location or by using "not":

ecology (limit to Art Collection)
photography and landscape and 19th not (video? or electronic)

Useful books

The Cultural Geography Reader
Call Number: GF43 .C85 2008

Readings that represent the scope of the discipline and its key concepts.
Ecology Without Nature
Call Number: PR448.E58 M67 2007

Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that proposes a new worldview, ... of accepting the idea of "ecology without nature."
Land Matters
Call Number: TR660 .W46 2011

... the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealization.
Landscape and Power
Call Number: N8205 .L36 2002

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identities.
Landscape and Western Art
Call Number: N8213 .A53 1999

What is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature?" Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact?
Nature, Aesthetics, and Environmentalism
Call Number: BH301.E58 B43 2008

Environmental aesthetics is an emerging field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical and environmental implications. Classic pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Aldo Leopold, as well as an essay by Eugene Hargrove lay out the scientific, artistic, and aesthetic foundations of current environmental beliefs and attitudes. T
Science and the Perception of Nature
Call Number: ND1354.4 .K57 1996

Examining the areas in which art and science came into contact with one another in the late-18th and early-19th centuries, this work argues that the common thread running through the changes in art and science was the emergence of a new phenomenalist conception of experience.
Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape
Call Number: GF90 .C67 1984

Hailed as a landmark in its field ... it continues to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others interested in the social and cultural politics of landscape.
The Visual Culture Reader
Call Number: NX458 .V58 2013

Highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures.

Useful subject headings to search

Subject headings allow you to locate resources on a particular topic or artist/person. To find asubject heading, do a Keyword search first, then re-search using the subject headings you find in the results. Some useful headings for this course (caps, brackets and dashes not necessary):

Arcadia in art

Art--political aspects

Earthworks (Art)

Ecology in art

Environment (Aesthetics)

Environment (Art)

Environmentalism--Social aspects

Landscape painting

Landscape photography

Landscapes--Social aspects

Landscapes in art

Nature (Aesthetics)

Nature--Effect of human beings on

Nature in art

Photography, Industrial

Street art

Sublime, The, in art