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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hermans, Rita., Editor.

Contributor:

Kolen, Jan, editor.

Renes, Johannes, editor.

Hermans, Rita, editor.

Series:

Landscape & heritage series

Amsterdam University Press - Landscape and Heritage Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape painting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, NLD : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 6, 2015).

ISBN:

1-003-69869-7

1-04-078215-9

90-485-1780-X

9781003698692

OCLC:

914245300