The landscape seems to be comprehensible to everyone without the need for an upstream theory. In reality it is quite the opposite. Landscape - which is an invention of citizens - is nature as perceived through culture. "To see a landscape you need more than an eye that perceives it: you also need a reflection that constitutes it in its diversity from the mere sensible datum: a theory" [Paolo D'Angelo, Philosophy of Landscape]. Many theories in fact: geography, ecology, aesthetics, architecture, but also cinema and literature, all speak of landscape and often make it a central concept in their disciplinary organisation.
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