POINT OF VIEW AS DYNAMIC
  • The notion of 'point of view' may itself be taken as dynamic, implying a mobile vantage point.

 

point of view

  • The visitors saw themselves as moving through the landscape: motion was subjective as well as objective

A map of Stowe garden in the 1770s. Each of the possible viewpoints is marked with a figure or a letter: there are multiple possible vantage points, and the landscape takes a new appearance as the visitor walks around the garden.

See William Gilpin Dialogue upon the gardens at Stowe(1748)
and Horace Walpole's Essay on Modern Gardening(1780)