man-scape

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“We might call⟳ it the fashion of man-scapes. A rough count⟳ discloses an overwhelming preponderance of man-scapes — pictures in which man-made forms, such as houses, factories, bridges, and so forth, furnished the dominant interest⟳; as against landscapes in which nature, much less modified by man, is the subject matter⟳.”

“Meanwhile we take⟳ pleasure in the sculpture of the natural landscape and find⟳ that distance sometimes lends enchantment even to intrinsically dreary man-scapes.”

“Shibata's photographs bear⟳ witness to this shift in contemporary Japanese terrain by exploring the landscape as a "man-scape."”

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