Please don’t laugh at the length of my reading list. I’m a slow reader. Reading puts me to sleep. Any reading list is ambitious for me. So here are the *two* books I’d like to read this year:
Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama (isbn 0-679-73512-7) – This book was included in a Michael James reading list for a class somewhere. I didn’t take the class, but the book description was intriguing: “Schama presents a wide-ranging meditation on the role of nature in Western civilization from ancient times to the present… He argues persuasively that Europeans and Americans have been shaped by nature as much as they themselves have shaped nature. Schama discusses the impact of sacred or mysterious rivers, forests, and mountains in forging the Western imagination.”
Art in Theory, 1900-2000, edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (isbn 0-631-22708-3)
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Hmmm, I would like to read Landscape and Memory. I have a book along similar lines that I have enjoyed: Landscape Narratives, Matthew Potteiger.