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.

The Architecture of Landscape

The Architecture of Landscape
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 0419250700
ISBN-13 : 9780419250708
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Synopsis The Architecture of Landscape by : Jan Birksted

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
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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.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 615
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ISBN-10 : 9781107495173
ISBN-13 : 1107495172
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology by : Dan Hicks

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.

Landscapes of Memory

Landscapes of Memory
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 182
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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 : 144
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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

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 : 0754649571
ISBN-13 : 9780754649571
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

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

This book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain. Reflecting on the cultural landscapes of British Asian women, it shows new spaces of memory to be as politically meaningful as the more formal spaces of memorialization. The book presents race memory as critical to English heritage and postcolonial politics and makes an important contribution to the writings on race and landscape

Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes

Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781000293388
ISBN-13 : 1000293386
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Reconstructing Minds and Landscapes by : Marja Tuominen

Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state – with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather than focusing on the “executive level” of material reconstruction, the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children. The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate. The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.

Relating Architecture to Landscape

Relating Architecture to Landscape
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9781135809713
ISBN-13 : 1135809712
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Relating Architecture to Landscape by : Jan Birksted

These essays make a unique contribution to the documentation of twentieth century landscape architecture. They address key moments in history that have sometimes been overlooked or forgotten, emerging moments, and potential moments of leverage. The essays present contemporary examples in architecture, landscape architecture and garden design that offer new models. Relating Architecture to Landscape will challenge accepted assumptions about the nature of landscape architecture.