Walkscapes Walking as an Aesthetic Practice

Walking is a cognitive and creative act capable of symbolically and physically transforming both natural and anthropogenic space. This book narrates a history of landscape perception through the act of walking: from primitive nomadism to the artistic avant-gardes of the early 20th century, from the Letterist International to the Situationist International, from minimalism to land art, Francesco Careri reviews some of the historical proposals that have conceived the act of wandering not only as a tool for shaping the landscape, but as an autonomous art form, an aesthetic instrument for understanding and physically modifying the traversed space, which then becomes urban intervention.

This new, updated edition of Careri's classic includes an epilogue by the author himself, in which he reflects on the book's trajectory since it was first published in 2002.