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9780961454746

Notes on a Shared Landscape : Making Sense of the American West

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  • ISBN13:

    9780961454746

  • ISBN10:

    0961454741

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-04-01
  • Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Summary

In his best-selling Art and Fear, David Bayles (with Ted Orland) closely examined personal and autobiographical episodes in search of general truths about artmaking. Bayles now turns that same attention to his native West. When European Americans "discovered" the American West, they fell in love with the resplendent landscape. The love affair and its congenital flaws persists to this day. Bayles writes: ". . . the question is why my people bungled our occupation of the West so badly when no one really wanted to, when there was every chance to get it right, when voices of caution were constantly raised, when what needed to be done was frequently obvious, and when, occasionally, we did get it right (think: National Parks)." Notes on a Shared Landscape engages the issues that make the West the West-widely ranging over the autobiographical and the cultural, the ecological and the epistemological, the cow and the potato. This is an intensely personal book, and though the Western library is huge, there is not another book like it. Much of the text unfolds in Yellowstone, where Bayles writes: In the Lamar valley of the Yellowstone, beaver gnaw the trunks of cottonwoods, elk browse their leaves. The shadows are long, even in summer. Even so, it is just another place. In it, just as elsewhere, we see the marks of our own hands faintly because we don't have to know very much about the land we live in, because we are equally a part of and apart from nature, and because there is hardly any moment when humans are more delusional than when self recognition is required.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9(2)
An Imperfect Fit
11(3)
The Lamar
14(3)
Exclosure
17(4)
The New West, or Maybe Not
21(3)
Meet the Natives
24(4)
Ashes
28(3)
Biopolitical Realities
31(1)
Seeing the Light
32(3)
Kingsnake
35(2)
An Observation from the Field
37(2)
Hayden Valley Traffic
39(2)
The Two-Color Map
41(4)
The ``Loch''
45(1)
In Which Adam Travels West
46(4)
Scarified Stump
50(2)
The Receding Horizon
52(4)
Field Notes from Babel
56(7)
Scanning for Wolves
63(3)
The New West, the Old West, and the Potato
66(5)
The Cow Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds
71(2)
The Last One for a While
73(2)
Notes on a Shared Landscape
75(4)
The Parks and the Forests
79(6)
As Best We Can
85(4)
Where Are the Willows?
89(4)
A Patch of Woods
93(5)
Rearranging the Furniture
98(3)
Two Trout
101(4)
The Camera and the Fly Rod
105(4)
Uncertainty and Other Sure Bets: A Postscript
109

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