Cultural Amnesia (book)

Cultural Amnesia
	First edition (UK)
Author	Clive James
Cover artist	Peter Behrens
Subject	essays
Published	2007 (MacMillan UK)
Media type	hardcover
Pages	876

Cultural Amnesia is a book of biographical essays by Clive James, first published in 2007. The British title, published by MacMillan, is Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, while the American 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 the German Modernist designer Peter Behrens.

Contents[]

The book is a series of essays on 106 people 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[]

^ Schillinger, Liesl (8 April 2007). "What Kind of Car Is a Ford Madox Ford?". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
^ "Cultural Amnesia". The Australian. 12 May 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

External links[]

Cultural Amnesia on Clive James' official website

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[1] Schillinger, Liesl (8 April 2007). "What Kind of Car Is a Ford Madox Ford?". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

[2] "Cultural Amnesia". The Australian. 12 May 2007. Retrieved 11 July 2010.

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