Cultural Amnesia (book)

Cultural Amnesia (book)
Cultural Amnesia  
first edition (U.K.)
Author(s) Clive James
Cover artist Peter Behrens
Subject(s) essays
Publisher MacMillan UK
W.W. Norton (US)
Publication date 2007
Media type hardcover
Pages 876

Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007. The U.K. title, published by MacMillan, is Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, while the U.S. title, published by W.W. Norton, is Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts[1][2] The cover illustration was adapted from a work by German Modernist designer Peter Behrens.

Contents

The book is series of essays on people whose apothegms James has been fascinated by, most of them from the 20th century. The chapters are in alphabetical order of the subject's name, as follows:

References

  1. ^ Schillinger, Liesl (8 April 2007). "What Kind of Car Is a Ford Madox Ford?". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/books/review/Schillinger.t.html. Retrieved 11 July 2010. 
  2. ^ "Cultural Amnesia". The Australian. 12 May 2007. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/cultural-amnesia/story-e6frg8no-1111113493720. Retrieved 11 July 2010. 

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