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Landscape and Images (Paperback)
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Landscape and Images (Paperback)
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John Stilgoe is just looking around. This is more difficult than it
sounds, particularly in our mediated age, when advances in both
theory and technology too often seek to replace the visual evidence
before our own eyes rather than complement it. We are surrounded by
landscapes charged with our past, and yet from our earliest
schooldays we are instructed not to stare out the window. Someone
who stops to look isn't only a rarity; he or she is suspect.
Landscape and Images records a lifetime spent observing America's
constructed landscapes. Stilgoe's essays follow the eclectic trains
of thought that have resulted from his observation, from the
postcard preference for sunsets over sunrises to the concept of
""teen geography"" to the unwillingness of Americans to walk up and
down stairs. In Stilgoe's hands, the subject of jack o' lanterns
becomes an occasion to explore centuries-old concepts of boundaries
and trespassing, and to examine why this originally pagan symbol
has persisted into our own age. Even something as mundane as
putting the cat out before going to bed is traced back to fears of
unwatched animals and an untended frontier fireplace. Stilgoe
ponders the forgotten connections between politics and painted
landscapes and asks why a country whose vast majority lives less
than a hundred miles from a coast nonetheless looks to the rural
Midwest for the classic image of itself. At times breathtaking in
their erudition, the essays collected here are as meticulously
researched as they are elegantly written. Stilgoe's observations
speak to specialists-whether they be artists, historians, or
environmental designers-as well as to the common reader. Our
landscapes constitute a fascinating history of accident and intent.
The proof, says Stilgoe, is all around us.
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