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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

13 Ways of Looking at a Lake

Author : Alison Butler

Published in: The Long Take

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The chapter offers a close reading of James Benning’s 13 Lakes (2004), exploring its relationship to the traditions and conventions of American landscape art and the effects of transposing these to a durational medium, as well as considering the film in relation to conceptual and performative practices in contemporary landscape art. This formal analysis highlights the film’s singular point-of-view system, a repeated staging of the encounter between a subject and an object. For the spectator, the film offers a mediated experience of landscape that is contemplative, but also full of longing for something that is constitutively absent. Although the film does not explicitly address the question of the relationship between landscape representation and national identity, close reading reveals its underlying importance.

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Metadata
Title
13 Ways of Looking at a Lake
Author
Alison Butler
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Long Take

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-58572-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-58573-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58573-8_12