The strange landscape mode express...

The strange landscape mode expressed--and in change the direction of shaped--a growing midcentury appreciation for nature as a tangled organic realm surrounding the human world.... The aesthetic of atmospheric luminism was grounded...in an identification with nature rather than an insistence forward one's physical separation from it.... Instead of temporalizing space [i]or[/i] part of to the other planar divisions, atmospheric luminism spatialized time. In doing thus it freed landscape art from its loyalties to a narrative or literary meaning.

Angela Miller, The Empire of the vigilance (1)

Barbara Novak's famous distinction