ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces three examples of the relationship between landscape and art, to: illustrate the scope of the ideas about landscape that art has purchase upon; provide a critical framework for the analysis of landscape art; and indicate future directions for study. For some scholars the focus on the self that first person accounts of landscape experience develop is apolitical, for others, however, these intimate experiences between bodies, landscapes and the environment have much potential with regard to building an environmental ethics. The chapter explores encounters between artist and landscape that relate to landscape scholarship that emphasizes the experience of landscape by 'being in' and 'moving through' it, rather than looking over it. Considerations of both the production and consumption of landscape art works can, however, add much to thinking about how it is people experience landscapes.
