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'Kane discusses the aegis of inner and outer landscapes of a retrospective exhibit of the work of Mark Rothko. His paintings in Guggenheim Museum were beginning to look like images of landscapes, with the horizon line defined by the junction between the two squares of color, one top of the other. On the other hand, the National Gallery's exhibit differs in the border and the strange flecks of white: the viewer was simultaneously outside the painting looking in, and inside looking beyond.' (Editor's abstract)
'Muecke discusses the cultural representation of the Australian landscape. Australian landscape is the wide brown land of Dorothea McKellar's famous poem gathered and brought into the orbit of perception: framed as a landscape painting or photograph, conceived of as a suitable site for building, or captured as a moving image in the cinema.' (Publisher's abstract)