Landscape and Memory

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Vintage, 1996 - 652 pagina's
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A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist gadfly on the slopes of Mount Rushmore. The result is a triumphant work of history, naturalism, mythology, and art, as encyclopedic as The Golden Bough and as irresistibly readable as Schama's own Citizens.

"A work of great ambition and enormous intellectual scope...consistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times


"Extraordinary...a summary cannot convey the riches of this book. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books

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The mantle he received (through their common patron, Daniel Wadsworth) had
belonged for a whole generation to Thomas Cole. And throughout his life
Thomas Cole had been one of nature's crusaders. Considering his background
in ...
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Thomas Cole, Tlw Course of Empire: The Areadian or Pastoral State, 1833-36.
Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Desolation, 1833-36. Thomas Cole, Home
in the Woods, 1847, detail. his Course of Empire were inscribed in landscapes ...
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Thomas Cole, Gothic Ruins at Sunset, ca. 1844-48. Thomas Cole, Cross at
Sunset, ca. 1848. For someone like Cole, obsessed with vegetable theology,
mortality could only be a prologue to a new life. So it is not surprising to discover
that ...

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With this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen

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I find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen

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Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University and the prize-winning author of seventeen books, including The Embarrassment of Riches, Citizens, Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes, the History of Britain trilogy and The Story of the Jews. He is a contributing editor of the Financial Times and his award-winning television work as writer and presenter for the BBC includes the fifteen-part A History of Britain and the eight-part, Emmy-winning Power of Art.

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TitelLandscape and Memory
Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama
AuteurSimon Schama
Editiegeïllustreerd, herdruk
UitgeverVintage, 1996
ISBN0679735127, 9780679735120
Lengte652 pagina's
  
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