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Seeing Landscape through Artistic Practice

This was in short the narrative about what was called the “Ideal”, “Arcadian”, “Beautiful”, “Pastoral” landscape. This story of creating the model is of course much more complicated and involves many more variables than my examples, such as the Dutch landscape tradition and its existence in other cultures outside Europe; designed landscape was produced in China, Egypt and Mesopotamia long before it occurred in Europe. Raymond Williams points out that “pleasing prospects” (a characteristic phrase of the time that is associated with both seeking out and reproducing Picturesque views of landscapes) had specific results in the 18th century, “Yet as always, in such cases, the particular application, in real social context, had a new and particular effect.” This effect began to develop a certain ideology, which then formed a man who was dividing his observations into the “practical” and “aesthetic”. 19 


These 18th and 19th century travellers in search of the Picturesque – for example, those who went to the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands or North Wales – included the more prosperous tourists as well as intellectuals, connoisseurs and artists, all of whom used various viewing aids for landscape20  One of the best known, and that has become important for my practice, was an optical instrument called the Claude Mirror, the Gray Mirror or the Claude Lorrain Mirror. According to Deborah Jean Warner, the mirror was first connected to the British poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771), adding that it was in the 19th century, and for “unknown reasons”, that it came to be associated with Claude21 

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28: Claude Mirror, early 19th century.
Photo: Matts Leiderstam

19 Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, p. 121.

20 See Malcolm Andrews, The Search for the Picturesque, pp. 67-82.

21 Deborah Jean Warner, “The landscape mirror and glass”, January issue of Antiques, 1974.

Åsberg, Stig
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after-image
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Akerman, Chantal
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Alberti, Leon Battista
Page: 27

Angelo Giorgio, Cardinal
Page: 19, 19(a.)

Armitage, John
Page: 51(a.)

Art Institute of Chicago
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Arvidsson, Kristoffer
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Ashburton, Lord
Page: 19(a.)

Augé, Marc
Page: 53, 53(a.)

Bätschmann, Oskar
Page: 33(a.)

Bal, Mieke
Page: 8(a.)

Barton, Judy (character in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock)
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Baudelaire, Charles
Page: 44

beat, the
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Beckett, Samuel
Page: 39

Bellini, workshop of Giovanni
Page: 28

Bierstadt, Albert
Page: 17

Bjurström, Per
Page: 19, 19(a.), 33, 57, 57(a.)

Blaugrund, Annette
Page: 17(a.)

Böttcher, Ann
Page: 7, 7(a.)

Bonaparte, Lucien
Page: 19(a.), 41(a.)

Bosch, Hieronymous
Page: 40

Brealey, John
Page: 19, 19(a.)

British Museum, London
Page: 22, 22(a.)

Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Page: 45

Bryson, Norman
Page: 2, 2(a.), 8, 8(a.), 27(a.), 44(a.)

Butler, Judith
Page: 48, 48(a.), 49

Calaresu, Melissa
Page: 9(a.)

Calefato, Patrizia
Page: 43, 43(a.)

Cavalli-Björkman, Görel
Page: 19(a.)

Cederström, Gustaf
Page: 46, 46(a.)

Certeau, Michel de
Page: 53

Cézanne, Paul
Page: 39

Church, Fredric Edwin
Page: 17, 17(a.)

Claude Glasses
Page: 5, 12, 18, 51, 54

Claude Lorrain Mirror
Page: 10

Claude Mirror
Page: 5, 10, 11, 18

Claudian
Page: 11, 14, 14(a.), 15, 17, 41, 41(a.), 53, 56

Claudian gaze
Page: 17

Claudian light
Page: 14

Claudian model
Page: 14, 14(a.), 15, 41(a.)

Cohen, Ernst
Page: 8(a.)

Constable, John
Page: 25(a.), 41(a.)

copy
Page: 4, 4(a.), 5, 5(a.), 20, 22, 25, 26, 30(a.), 31, 32, 32(a.), 34, 38, 40, 41, 41(a.), 42, 42(a.), 44, 48, 51, 55, 57

copying, act of -
Page: 31, 51

copyist
Page: 26, 32, 34, 40, 41, 42, 44

Courbet, Gustave
Page: 34(a.)

Crary, Jonathan
Page: 13, 13(a.)

cruising
Page: 8, 35, 35(a.), 44, 44(a.), 49

Dahlbäck, Bengt
Page: 20(a.)

Degas, Edgar
Page: 44

Dercon, Chris
Page: 51(a.)

Duchamp, Marcel
Page: 2, 45

Düsseldorf School
Page: 15

Dughet, Gaspard
Page: 27

Dunwell, Frances F.
Page: 16(a.), 17(a.)

El Greco
Page: 2

Elster, Madeleine (character in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock)
Page: 30, 31, 34, 38, 44

Fabiani, Bardo
Page: 43(a.)

Fahlcrantz, Carl Johan
Page: 14, 15

Ferguson, John "Scottie" (character in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock)
Page: 30, 31

Ferrier, Maïten de
Page: 32

Field, Cyrus
Page: 17(a.)

framing
Page: 7, 33, 35, 51, 54

Fraser, Andrea
Page: 40(a.)

Fredlund, Björn
Page: 8(a.), 19(a.)

Fried, Michael
Page: 28(a.)

Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg
Page: 8(a.), 19, 19(a.), 46, 46(a.)

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Page: 24

Gallerie Brunner, Paris
Page: 19(a.)

Gardner, Jack
Page: 29(a.)

gay
Page: 8, 35, 35(a.), 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 48(a.)

gaze
Page: 4, 5(a.), 8, 9, 13, 17, 20, 23, 24, 26, 27(a.), 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 42, 44, 44(a.), 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 54

gender
Page: 30, 43, 48(a.), 49

Georgel, Chantal
Page: 24(a.)

Getty, Paul
Page: 19, 19(a.)

Gilpin, William
Page: 9, 9(a.), 12, 12(a.), 16, 16(a.)

Giori, Cardinale
Page: 22

Goldfarb, Hilliard T.
Page: 28(a.), 29(a.)

Gombrich, Ernst Hans
Page: 25(a.), 48(a.)

Gordon, Douglas
Page: 30(a.)

Grünewald, Matthias
Page: 2

Grammel, Sören
Page: 30(a.)

Granath, Olle
Page: 4(a.)

Grand Tour
Page: 9, 14, 32, 35(a.)

Grate, Pontus
Page: 37(a.), 41(a.)

Gray Mirror
Page: 10

Great Chain Overlook, The
Page: 5

grid
Page: 24, 25, 25(a.), 26, 37, 38, 44, 46, 47, 49

Guerrilla Girls
Page: 40(a.)

Gustaf Adolf VI of Sweden, King
Page: 18

Hansen, Constantin
Page: 8(a.)

Harriss, Joseph A.
Page: 32(a.), 40(a.)

Hedén, Karl-Gustaf
Page: 8(a.), 19, 19(a.)

Herrmann, Bernard
Page: 30(a.)

heterosexual
Page: 48, 49

Hidaka, Ritsuko
Page: 24, 24(a.)

history
Page: 1, 7, 15, 18, 19, 20(a.), 21, 24, 26,32(a.), 35, 41(a.), 44, 46, 47, 48, 55, 56

Hitchcock, Alfred
Page: 30

Hockney, David
Page: 11(a.)

Holger, Lena
Page: 46(a.)

horizon
Page: 25, 27, 35, 38(a.), 41, 52, 53, 54, 56

Hudson River Highlands
Page: 16, 16(a.), 17(a.)

Hudson River School
Page: 17, 17(a.)

Hudson Valley
Page: 17, 18

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Page: 28, 29(a.)

Isakson, Karl
Page: 39

Kennedy, Randy
Page: 45(a.)

Kitson, Michael
Page: 22(a.)

Købke, Christian
Page: 8(a.)

Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Grand Duke
Page: 46, 46(a.)

Kopp, Céline
Page: 42(a.)

Krauss, Rosalind
Page: 25, 25(a.)

Kulick, Don
Page: 44, 44(a.), 49

Kunstverein München, Munich
Page: 30(a.)

landscape, Arcadian -
Page: 9, 35

landscape, cultivated -
Page: 16

landscape, designed -
Page: 10

landscape, Dutch -
Page: 10

landscape, lost -
Page: 16

landscape, national -
Page: 9, 14, 15

landscape, Nordic -
Page: 15

landscape, pastoral -
Page: 21, 34, 35

landscape,pictorial
Page: 14

landscape, Roman -
Page: 11

landscape, Romantic -
Page: 52

landscape, Swedish -
Page: 14, 15

landscape painter
Page: 5, 14, 17, 19(a.)

landscape painting
Page: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 11(a.), 14, 15, 53

Landscapes, Ideal -
Page: 9, 9(a.), 22(a.), 33(a.), 35, 40, 41(a.)

Landscapes, Imperial -
Page: 14, 14(a.)

Langdon, Helen
Page: 11(a.), 33, 33(a.), 57(a.)

Lawler, Louise
Page: 40(a.)

Lefebvre, Henri
Page: 27

Lenbach, Franz von
Page: 30(a.)

Liber Veritatis
Page: 21, 22, 22(a.)

linguistic matrix
Page: 25

Lorrain, Claude
Page: 2, 4, 4(a.), 5, 8, 8(a.), 9, 10, 11, 11(a.), 12, 12(a.), 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 18(a.), 19, 19(a.), 20, 21, 21(a.), 22, 22(a.), 23, 25, 25(a.), 26, 27, 28, 33, 33(a.), 34, 34(a.), 35, 36, 36(a.), 38, 38(a.), 41, 41(a.), 42(a.), 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 57(a.)

Louvre, Paris
Page: 24, 32, 32(a.), 40, 44, 44(a.)

Lyberg, Louise
Page: 32(a.)

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
Page: 35(a.)

Maillet, Arnaud
Page: 12(a.)

Malsch, Friedemann
Page: 28(a.)

Manson & Woods, London
Page: 8(a.)

Martin, Elias
Page: 14, 14(a.)

Matisse, Henri
Page: 39

memory
Page: 7, 11, 17(a.), 20, 30(a.), 31, 35(a.), 41, 41(a.), 43, 51

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
Page: 24, 24(a.), 27, 27(a.), 39, 39(a.), 55, 55(a.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Page: 17(a.), 24

Metz, Philip
Page: 30(a.)

mimicry
Page: 5, 6, 34, 40, 47, 49, 51

Mitchell, W.J.T.
Page: 11(a.), 14, 14(a.), 28(a.), 38(a.), 48(a.)

Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Page: 20, 40(a.)

Molvidson, Martin
Page: 46(a.)

Mulvey, Laura
Page: 30, 30(a.), 31

Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica
Page: 41, 41(a.)

museum
Page: 4, 4(a.), 5, 8,18, 19, 20, 20(a.), 23, 24, 24(a.), 25,26, 27, 28,29, 29(a.), 30, 30(a.), 31, 32, 32(a.), 33, 34, 36,38, 40, 40(a.),42, 42(a.), 43, 44, 44(a.), 45, 46, 46(a.), 47,49, 50, 51

Museum of Modern Art, New York
Page: 45, 45(a.)

National Gallery, London
Page: 24, 41(a.)

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Page: 4, 4(a.), 5, 8(a.), 18, 19, 19(a.), 20, 20(a.), 24, 27, 32, 32(a.), 37, 38, 41(a.), 46, 47, 48(a.), 55, 57(a.)

nature
Page: 7, 9, 12, 13, 17, 18, 24, 33, 34, 39, 43, 47, 48, 51, 57

Newman, Michael
Page: 51, 51(a.), 52, 52(a.)

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Page: 8

new viewer
Page: 45, 54

Nilsson, Håkan
Page: 48, 48(a.)

non-place
Page: 53, 53(a.)

Nordic Light
Page: 15

Nordqvist, Per
Page: 14

Novak, Kim (actor in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock)
Page: 30

original
Page: 4(a.), 5, 5(a.), 8, 14, 18(a.), 19(a.), 20, 22, 25, 25(a.), 26, 29(a.), 32, 33, 34, 39, 40, 41, 41(a.), 42, 46, 46(a.), 47, 48, 48(a.), 49

painting, historical -
Page: 6, 24, 30, 35, 41(a.)

painting, landscape
Page: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 11(a.), 14, 15, 53

painting, lost -
Page: 26

painting, process of -
Page: 39, 57

Palazzo Riccardi, Florence
Page: 19(a.)

Pehrson, Mathias
Page: 18(a.)

perspective
Page: 11, 18, 27, 27(a.), 33, 44

Persson, Helena
Page: 8(a.)

Petterson, Åke
Page: 18(a.)

Phelan, Peggy
Page: 5, 39, 39(a.)

Phillips, Tony
Page: 27(a.)

Piaggi, Anna
Page: 43, 43(a.)

pictorial space
Page: 24, 25

pictures journey
Page: 8

Picturesque
Page: 5, 9, 9(a.), 10, 10(a.), 11, 11(a.), 12, 12(a.), 14, 16, 17, 18

Pollock, Jackson
Page: 48(a.)

Pordenone, Bernardino Licinio da
Page: 28(a.)

Poussin, Nicolas
Page: 9, 27, 33, 33(a.), 40(a.), 41(a.)

Prado Museum, Madrid
Page: 41(a.), 53

queer
Page: 4, 43

Röthlisberger, Marcel
Page: 8(a.), 19, 19(a.), 21, 21(a.), 22(a.), 34(a.), 35, 35(a.), 36, 36(a.), 37, 38(a.), 41, 41(a.), 42, 42(a.)

Rørbye, Martinus
Page: 8(a.)

Raphael
Page: 36

Rebekah
Page: 4(a.), 5, 15, 16, 18, 19, 19(a.), 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 25(a.), 26, 28, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 37(a.), 38, 40, 41, 42, 47, 55, 57

recognition
Page: 2, 8, 28, 38, 39, 40

Rembrandt van Rijn
Page: 19(a.)

repetition
Page: 5, 39, 40

restorer
Page: 18, 19, 19(a.), 20, 21

Roman campagna
Page: 8(a.), 34

Rossholm Lagerlöf, Margaretha
Page: 9(a.), 22(a.), 33, 33(a.), 34, 34(a.), 41(a.)

Rubens, Peter Paul
Page: 41(a.)

Ruiz, Raúl
Page: 40, 40(a.)

Sandberg, Ragnar
Page: 39, 39(a.)

Sandrart, Joachim von
Page: 36, 57

Sarto, Andrea del
Page: 30(a.)

See and Seen
Page: 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 29(a.), 44, 47, 49, 50, 54

seeing, act of -
Page: 27, 43, 49, 54

seeing, moment of
Page: 21, 48, 54

seeing, process of -
Page: 5, 26

seeing, way of -
Page: 7, 9, 14, 18, 39, 51

shepherd
Page: 4(a.), 19(a.), 22, 33, 35, 42

Shiner, Larry
Page: 40(a.)

spectator
Page: 11, 11(a.), 13, 29, 29(a.), 30, 33, 38(a.), 41, 43, 44, 50, 53

Stewart, James (actor in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock))
Page: 30

Stewart Gardner, Isabella
Page: 28, 29, 29(a.), 49

Storrie, Calum
Page: 44, 44(a.)

tourist
Page: 5, 7, 9, 9(a.), 10, 13, 18, 54

translate
Page: 2(a.), 11, 19(a.), 26, 39, 46

translation
Page: 1, 18(a.), 19(a.), 27(a.), 39(a.), 55(a.), 57(a.)

traveller
Page: 9, 10, 14, 53

Turner, J.M.W.
Page: 11

US Military Academy at West Point, New York State
Page: 5, 16, 17, 18, 54

vanishing point
Page: 11, 27, 51, 52

Vertigo
Page: 30, 30(a.), 31, 38, 44

Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Page: 43

viewer
Page: 2, 4, 5, 7, 13, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 24(a.), 26, 27, 28, 29, 29(a.), 30, 33, 34, 38, 40, 41(a.), 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54

viewing, act of -
Page: 13

viewing, conditions of -
Page: 44

viewing, modes of -
Page: 13

viewing aids / instruments
Page: 10, 13, 48

viewing point
Page: 13, 52

Virgil
Page: 9, 9(a.)

Virilio, Paul
Page: 51, 52

Warner, Deborah Jean
Page: 10, 10(a.), 12, 12(a.)

Williams, Raymond
Page: 7, 7(a.), 10, 10(a.)

Wittgenstein
Page: 48(a.)

Wood, Marjorie 'Midge' (character in Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock)
Page: 31

X-ray
Page: 18(a.), 19, 19(a.), 55, 56

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