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This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.

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Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well." —National Geographic Research and Exploration

"Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement." — The Higher

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      Publisher: MP-SYR Syracuse University P
      Publication Date: 11/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780815629542, 978-0815629542
      ISBN10: 0815629540
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume explores the relationship between society and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation.

      Trade Review
      Imagined Country views the environment as a social construct, defined, interpreted, and reproduced by culture and ideology . . . . The book makes its case on that issue very well." —National Geographic Research and Exploration

      "Myths destroy time . . . ideologies reify space.' Through these two structures John Rennie Short examines the roles of the wilderness, the country, and the city in politics and art. . . . This is a rare achievement." — The Higher

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