Taking measures regarding the invisible dimension of the landscape
Author: PhD researcher Joana Dhiamandi
Affiliation: Polis University, Tirana Albania
Background
The Albanian landscape is an essential part of the elusive European landscape, intimate, fragmented and apparently culturally pluralistic. The term sublime was applied to the landscape during the conclusion of the 18thcentury and the 19th century, the time of Romanticism and Greek independence, during which the curiosity for the Orient was overwhelming. Sublime, a word that seems especially appropriate for the Albanian landscape. This landscape possesses profound historical and cultural reasons, archeological echoes of past modes of human existence, which to contemporary eyes are of a widely romantic appeal. This paper is an attempt to examine the invisible matrices of the landscape made by signs, layers, patterns formed in time and space, filled with multisensory information regarding the cultural dimension that the landscape owns.
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