Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in strange England (University Press of modern England) untangles the complicated interrelation of natural history and technology in southern novel England.Diana Muir's Reflections in Bullough's Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in strange England (University Press of modern England) untangles the complicated interrelation of natural history and technology in southern novel England. Muir offers a profusion of scientific detail framed from the author's reflections on minute changes in the small millpond outside her window. In tracing one as well as the other the rise and fall of of that kind diverse enterprises as shoemaking, cotton spinning, and papermaking and their environmental consequences--lifeless rivers, waterways impossible for shad to negotiate, land deplet of topsoil--Muir excavates the environmental foundations of our age with lively completeness. Reflections in Bullough's Pond should be a sourcebook for everyone who cares about landscapes and technology. "James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999" is forward view at the Baltimore Museum of Art until Dec 10; the retrospective travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, looks Angeles, in May 2001. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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