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“The landscape is not made to look at”. This statement by Eric Dardel, in his book L’Homme et la Terre, originally published in the 1950s, disagrees, far ahead of his time – and even today – rather than commonly – and geographically –, with what has been meant by landscape. Although many decades have passed since this publication, little seems to have been left of this conception of landscape in geographical studies, even if we consider the productions of humanistic geography, a field that best appropriated the work of the French geographer. By asserting that the landscape is not made to look at, Dardel breaks with the inheritance of the pictorial visuality attributed to the term and that has run through, following different paths, the theoretical construction of this concept in geographical science. What is landscape? So, what is in the landscape beyond what we see? These are questions that we will seek to explore in this paper, from a review of landscape pathways in geography and its current openings.||“A paisagem não é feita para se olhar”. Essa afirmação de Eric Dardel, em seu livro O Homem e a Terra, originalmente publicado na década de 1950, vai de encontro, de forma muito à frente de sua época – e até mesmo dos dias atuais –, do que comumente – e geograficamente – se entende por paisagem. Embora muitas décadas tenham se passado desde essa publicação, pouco parece ter ficado dessa concepção de paisagem nos estudos geográficos, até mesmo se consideramos as produções da geografia humanista, campo que mais se apropriou da obra do geógrafo francês. Ao afirmar que a paisagem não é feita para se olhar, Dardel rompe com a herança da visualidade pictórica atribuída ao termo e que perpassou, seguindo diferentes caminhos, a construção teórica desse conceito na ciência geográfica. O que é paisagem, o que há na paisagem, então, além do que vemos? Essas são questões que buscaremos explorar no presente artigo, a partir de uma revisão das trajetórias da paisagem na geografia e suas atuais aberturas.
Abstract
SEEING, BEING AND BEING IN LANDSCAPES: PATHWAYS OF AN OPENING CONCEPT
“The landscape is not made to look at”. This statement by Eric Dardel, in his book L’Homme et la Terre, originally published in the 1950s, disagrees, far ahead of his time – and even today – rather than commonly – and geographically –, with what has been meant by landscape. Although many decades have passed since this publication, little seems to have been left of this conception of landscape in geographical studies, even if we consider the productions of humanistic geography, a field that best appropriated the work of the French geographer. By asserting that the landscape is not made to look at, Dardel breaks with the inheritance of the pictorial visuality attributed to the term and that has run through, following different paths, the theoretical construction of this concept in geographical science. What is landscape? So, what is in the landscape beyond what we see? These are questions that we will seek to explore in this paper, from a review of landscape pathways in geography and its current openings.
