ABSTRACT
The View from Different Disciplines "Region" originally referred to political control (from the Latin regere, to rule or govern). It is still used in political science and international relations to refer to the territorial basis of government, but it has also been used to study the arts and aesthetics (Odum and Moore 1938, 167-8). There are "regional painters,” such as Curry, Wood, and Benton in the United States (Liffring-Zug 1977; Czestochowski 1981), and the relation of paintings to regional landscapes has been studied (Klitgaard 1941). Natural regions have been defined on the basis of climate, vegetation, and soils, and their landscapes have been related to geomorphology and regional geology.
