With no formal background in Catalan, I do find that an awareness of surrounding languages (French, Spanish and Portuguese) quite helpful for reading. And clearly the sense of Perejaume in El paisatge és rodó is one that I am sympathetic to: "La natura entesa com a objecte de l'explotació humana enfront de la natura bella per a ser contemplada és, en gran mesura, un fals dilema pel fet que la contemplació comporta, així mateix, una part d'explotació" (91). Perejaume goes on discuss the strong link created, maintained and forgotten on our (human part): the landscape is captured or apprehended in sight, given horizons and maintained as place, the stable signifier. As P. mentions about the capital of Garrotxa, Tal és l'Olot d'Olot.
The critique of landscape painting as estheticism clearly resonates with Sabadell Artiga's work in land art and installation pieces.
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