History and memory in the contemporary artistic landscape

Abstract

This communication aims to address the relationship between Geography, History and Art. An approach that we will approach from the point of view of landscape art but that necessarily needs historical and geographical support, for which we will turn to recent studies. The physical geographical space cannot be understood without an associated cultural and historical space. Culture and history are the result of the adaptation of a specific society to a specific territory at a specific time. For Munárriz (2005), the anthropological perspective starts from the physical space but subordinates it to its cultural dimension, that is, as a basic component of the vital environment in which the story takes place, the place where concrete and specific forms of life develop. Santacana and Mestre (2009) attribute to the landscape the quality of historical when it shows in one or more constitutive elements of it, whether diachronic or synchronic, evocations or explicit information of the human past, which is why they become a resource for the conservation of the collective memory of a concrete and significant event. In this sense, they divide the historical landscape into various categories, among which we will highlight the Landscape with intangible historical heritage and the Landscape with mythical heritage.