Landscapes of Memory and Experience

Landscapes of Memory and Experience
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9780419250708
ISBN-13 : 0419250700
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Synopsis Landscapes of Memory and Experience by : Jan Birksted

Introduction - Landscape as Perspective. Chapter 1 - The Pommemorative Anatomy of a Colonial Park. Chapter 2 - A New Monument in a New Land. Chapter 3 - Carlo Scarpa: Built Memories. Chapter 4 - The Rational Point of View: Viollet-le-Duc and the Camera Lucida. Chapter 5 - Cezanne's Party. Chapter 6 - Subject to Circumstance, The Landscape of the French Lighthouse System. Chapter 7 - The Body in the Garden. Chapter 8 - Self, Scene and Action: The Final Chapter of Yuan Ye. Chapter 9 - The House of Light and Entropy: Inhabiting the American Desert. Chapter 10 - Landscape to Inscape: Topography as Ecclesiological Vision. Chapter 11 - Fluid Precision: Giacomo Della Porta and the Acqua Vergine fountains of Rome. Chapter 12 - New Projects for the City of Munster. Chapter 13 - The Villa d'Este Storyboard. Chapter 14 - The Splendid Effects of Architecture, and its Power to Affect the Mind.

Landscapes of Memory and Experience

Landscapes of Memory and Experience
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 271
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ISBN-10 : 9781135158804
ISBN-13 : 1135158800
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscapes of Memory and Experience by : Jan Birksted

It has been argued that the history of landscape and of gardens has been marginalized from the mainstream of art history and visual studies because of a lack of engagement with the theories, methods and concepts of these disciplines. This book explores possible ways out of this impasse in such a way that landscape studies would become pivotal through its theoretical advances, since landscape studies would challenge the underlying assumptions of traditional phenomenological theory. Thus the history and theory of twentieth-century landscape might not only once again share concepts and methods with contemporary art and design history, but might in turn influence them. A complementary sequel to Relating Architecture to Landscape, this volume of essays explores further areas of interest and discussion in the landscape/architecture debate and offers contributions from a team of well-known researchers, teachers and writers. The choice of topics is wide-ranging and features case studies of modern and contemporary schemes from the USA, Far East and Australasia.

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : 9780521853750
ISBN-13 : 0521853753
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology by : Dan Hicks

An introduction to the ways in which archaeologists study the recent past (c.AD 1500 to the present).

Landscape and Memory

Landscape and Memory
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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages : 652
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ISBN-10 : 0006863485
ISBN-13 : 9780006863489
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape and Memory by : Simon Schama

This book examines our relationship with the landscape around us - rivers, mountains, forests - the impact that each of them has had on our culture and imaginations, and the way in which we, in turn, have shaped them to suit our needs.

Landscapes of Memory

Landscapes of Memory
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 179
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ISBN-10 : 9781408816998
ISBN-13 : 1408816997
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscapes of Memory by : Ruth Klüger

Ruth Kluger is one of the child-survivors of the Holocaust. In 1942, at the age of eleven, she was deported to the Nazi 'family camp' Theresienstadt with her mother. They would move to two other camps (including Auschwitz-Birkenau) before the war ended. LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY is the story of Ruth's life. Of a childhood spent in the Nazi camps and her refusal to forget the past as an adult in America. 'It is not in our power to forgive: memory does that for us,' says Kluger. Not erasing a single detail, not even the inconvenient ones, she writes frankly about the troubled relationship with her mother even through their years of internment, and of her determination not to forgive and absolve the past. It is this memory, pure and harsh, this anger, savage and profound, that makes Kluger's memoir so unforgettable. A gripping narrative and a superb meditation on the relationship between private memory and history, on forgiveness and redemption, LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY will become a classic of our times.

Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death

Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 9780718197018
ISBN-13 : 0718197011
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death by : Otto Dov Kulka

Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust Winner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014 As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off. Translated by Ralph Mandel. 'The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize

Landscapes of Memory

Landscapes of Memory
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Publisher : Cultural Memories
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 303432202X
ISBN-13 : 9783034322027
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Landscapes of Memory by : Patrizia Violi

What should we do with places that were theatres of mass suffering and atrocity? Should we keep them as they were, to remind us of the past, or transform them? This volume addresses these questions by discussing selected key trauma sites, analysed with an innovative semiotic methodology that sheds new light on the notions of trauma and memory.

Landscape, Race and Memory

Landscape, Race and Memory
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9781409488637
ISBN-13 : 1409488632
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape, Race and Memory by : Dr Divya P Tolia-Kelly

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Whilst the relationships between the political value of landscape and national memory have previously been written through, there has been little mention of postcolonial, 'diasporic' racialized citizens. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. It uses memory to examine how postcolonial citizenship in Britain is experienced - through remembered citizenships of 'other' geographies abroad. By reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, the book reveals social-historical narratives about migration, citizenship and belonging. New spaces of memory are presented as mobile and as politically charged with meaning as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book offers a refiguring of race memory as being critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on memory, race and landscape.

Haunted Landscapes

Haunted Landscapes
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781783488834
ISBN-13 : 1783488832
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Haunted Landscapes by : Ruth Heholt

Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with absence, memory and nostalgia. Yet experiences of haunting must in some way always belong to the present: they must be felt. This collection of essays opens up new and compelling areas of debate around the concepts of haunting, affect and landscape. Landscape studies, supernatural studies, haunting and memory are all rapidly growing fields of enquiry and this book synthesises ideas from several critical approaches – spectral, affective and spatial – to provide a new route into these subjects. Examining urban and rural landscapes, haunted domestic spaces, landscapes of trauma, and borderlands, this collection of essays is designed to cross disciplines and combine seemingly disparate academic approaches under the coherent locus of landscape and haunting. Presenting a timely intervention in some of the most pressing scholarly debates of our time, Haunted Landscapes offers an attractive array of essays that cover topics from Victorian times to the present.

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9783110201949
ISBN-13 : 3110201941
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis W. G. Sebald by : Scott Denham

The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 – 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century (“Die Ausgewanderten”, “Austerlitz”, “Luftkrieg und Literatur”). His writing is marked by a unique ‘hybridity’ that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998.