Scientists declare that we are now well into in the age of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which nature has become reshaped by man.
The fundamental subject matter of landscape is the relationship between man and nature, revealed topographically – whether the topos in question is a Continental pastoral, a sublime American wilderness or the rapturous desolation of manufactured landscapes.
But with “nature” as we traditionally understand it out of the picture, landscape as a genre must rediscover and redefine itself.