Open AccessThe Perception of the Alpine Landscape in Travel Images
Author(s) -
Claude Reichler
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
viatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2275-0827
DOI - 10.52497/viatica435
Subject(s) - iconography , witness , period (music) , romanticism , mythology , perception , romance , humanities , ethnology , geography , art history , history , art , aesthetics , political science , classics , literature , philosophy , epistemology , law
Through iconography, this article analyses the perception of the Alpine landscape in the Romantic period. By highlighting a co-presence of European elites and "little people" in these images, the travel representations bear witness to a situation in which both resident and newcomer communicate and exchange. Through an anthropological approach that tempers constructivist notions, the author shows that these images are significant from geographical, aesthetic, sociological and historical perspectives.