Memory and place

[dr1074]

Hello.

First posting here but am hoping to contribute to to forums and discussions over the forthcoming weeks and months.

I am coming to the end of an MA in Painting. The underpinning theory and contextualisation has been squarely founded on Bachelard and his Poetics of Space. However, I am looking to widen my research and would very much like to unearth other texts that deal specifically with memory and a sense of place/architecture/spaces.

I've a copy of Schama's Landscape and Memory which I'm about to delve into but I hoped I might pick your collective brains to see if there were any rare gems I have overlooked.

Many thanks in advance.

DR

[arrytus]

I've not read it but Lefebvre's Production of Space is notable. There is also Malraux's Museum without Walls. There is another one which I can't bring to mind presently on architecture... if I can recall it I'll edit post it.

However your post is very broad, especially in terms of 'memory', for which so many things spring to mind from neurology to psychology, therefore I've avoided this particular query as I am not certain in what sense you intend this concept.

And as you are a painter I very much implore you to read Dear Theo: The Collected letters of Van Gogh.