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Record Nr.

UNISA996365983703316

Autore

Hermans Rita

Titolo

Landscape biographies : geographical, historical and archaeological perspectives on the production and transmission of landscapes / / edited by Jan Kolen, Johannes Renes and Rita Hermans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2014

Amsterdam, NLD : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

90-485-1780-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam University Press - Landscape and Heritage Research

Classificazione

RB 10850

Disciplina

911

Soggetti

Landscape painting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Landscape and Heritage Studies -- Table of Contents -- Preface / Lorimer, Hayden -- 1. Landscape Biographies: Key Issues / Kolen, Jan / Renes, Johannes -- 2. The Marsh of Modernity. The Bog in our Brains and Bowels / Huijbens, Edward H. / Palsson, Gisli -- 3. Biographies of Biotopes / Kolen, Jan -- 4. Automobile Authorship of Landscapes. A Biographical Vignette of Iceland's Interior / Huijbens, Edward / Benediktsson, Karl -- 5. Authenticity, Artifice and the Druidical Temple of Avebury / Gillings, Mark / Pollard, Joshua -- 6. Places That Matter. Megalithic Monuments from a Biographical Perspective / Papmehl-Dufay, Ludvig -- 7. What Future for the Life-History Approach to Prehistoric Monuments in the Landscape? / Holtorf, Cornelius -- 8. 'To Preserve the Terrain in its Present State'. Authorship and Conservation in the Eerder Achterbroek Protected Landscape Area (The Netherlands) / Purmer, Michiel -- 9. The Quiet Authors of an Early Modern Palatial Landscape. Transformation without Reconstruction at King William's Het Loo / Ronnes, Hanneke -- 10. Piet Mondrian's Victory Boogie Woogie, 1942-44. The Painting as Illustration of the Biography of Landscape / Stoye, Jürgen -- 11. Shanghai: The Biography of a City / Koren, David -- 12. A Kaleidoscopic Biography of an Ordinary Landscape. Analysis of the Development of the Neighbourhood Buiten Wittevrouwen (Utrecht - the



Netherlands) / de Jong, John -- 13. The Cultural Biography of a Street. Memory, Cultural Heritage and Historical Notion of the Visserstraat in Breda, the Netherlands (1200-2000) / Hupperetz, Wim -- 14. Post-Industrial Coal-Mining Landscapes and the Evolution of Mining Memory / van Veldhoven, Felix -- 15. Fatal Attraction. Nazi Landscapes, Modernism, and Holocaust Memory / van der Laarse, Rob -- 16. A Biography for an Emerging Urban District. Discovering Open Spaces in the Former Carlsberg Breweries, Copenhage / Riesto, Svava -- 17. Layered Landscapes. A Problematic Theme in Historic Landscape Research / Renes, Johannes -- 18. Biographies of Landscape: Rebala Heritage Reserve, Estonia. Locals' Perceptions of Landscape Heritage / Sooväli-Sepping, Helen

Sommario/riassunto

Landscape Biographies explores the long, complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. Twenty geographers, archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists investigate the diverse ways in which landscapes and monuments have been constructed, transmitted, and transformed from prehistory to the present, from Manhattan to Shanghai, Iceland to Portugal, England to Estonia.