Scapeland

Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot's Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot's eighteenth-century French Salons , through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern exhibition Les Immatériaux . In the Salons , an exploration of the painted landscape becomes an encounter with both the limits of representation and the infinite possibilities of fiction. Baudelaire and Breton explore similar limits in their work, set against the backdrop of the