BOOK REVIEW: Iulia Floriana Ciangă, 2016, Peisajul urban în vedutismul transilvan (The Urban Landscape in the Transylvanian Vedutism), Risoprint, Cluj-Napoca, 442 p.

Abstract

In the already very long series of PhD theses defended at the Faculty of Geography in Cluj-Napoca, only a few has been remarked for the unusual subject approached and the connections between Geography and other fields of sciences and arts. Others became known due to the use of new and brave approaching techniques of analysis and representation. One of such works – Iulia Floriana Ciangă’s “The Urban Landscape in the Transylvanian Vedutism” – makes a lasting impression because of the unprecedented subject approached but also, in my opinion, because it connects Geography to Arts and especially visual arts, like painting and graphics. This fact provides a touch of beauty and warmth, as it was „compelled” to break the geographical long-standing and repetitive standards (although it is a sum of several sciences!).