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From the perspective of contemporary art and aesthetics, some aspects of Willie Doherty’s work in the 1990s1 are particularly relevant in terms of landscape. His works, such as videos, photographs and installations offer a contemporary approach of landscape experience and representation. How did he question the relationship between representation and experience, reality and fiction, through the viewer’s position and gaze? In his work, landscape should be understood as a corporeal experience and a certain way of being. It therefore interrogates collective representations, as well as the processes of representation involved in the experience of landscape.
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Grout, C. (2012). The Geography of the Place in Doherty’s Work. In: Mianowski, M. (eds) Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360297_20
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