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Jessica Montello ART 383 Landscape in China Dr. Rick Kent Summary of Malcolm Andrews' Landscape and Western Art: Land into Landscape What makes a landscape? Landscape according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is defined as "a: a picture representing a view of natural inland scenery and b: 1the art of depicting such scenery."1 Malcolm Andrews' leads off the first chapter of Landscape and Western Art with the statement "A 'landscape', cultivated or wild, is already artifice before it has become the subject of a work of art. Even when we simply look we are already shaping and interpreting."2 Landscape is often viewed as the "raw material waiting to be processed by an artist."3 However, Andrews takes it one step further saying land is the raw form, so the process of creating a painting or photograph featuring a landscape involves the conversion of "land into landscape; landscape into art."4 Viewing land as landscape is a "process of discrimination"5...

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