Landscape And MemoryKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995 - 672 pagina's 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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... Warburg had discovered early in his career , a primal energy , periodically suppressed and con- trolled by rational discourse , but always capable of boiling up from its deep sources and engulfing civilization . In terms of the Greek ...
... Warburg had discovered early in his career , a primal energy , periodically suppressed and con- trolled by rational discourse , but always capable of boiling up from its deep sources and engulfing civilization . In terms of the Greek ...
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... Warburg called such symbols Leitfossils , and when he stared at their delicately petrified imprint , he could conjure up , all too easily , the primordial monsters . To look hard at those symbols , to acknowledge their endurance , was ...
... Warburg called such symbols Leitfossils , and when he stared at their delicately petrified imprint , he could conjure up , all too easily , the primordial monsters . To look hard at those symbols , to acknowledge their endurance , was ...
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... Warburg to E. H. Gombrich : A Problem of Method , " 17-59 . On Warburg , see also E. H. Gombrich , Aby Warburg : An Intel- lectual Biography ( Chicago , 1970 ) . For Warburg's career and personality , see the introduc- tion by Gertrud ...
... Warburg to E. H. Gombrich : A Problem of Method , " 17-59 . On Warburg , see also E. H. Gombrich , Aby Warburg : An Intel- lectual Biography ( Chicago , 1970 ) . For Warburg's career and personality , see the introduc- tion by Gertrud ...
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Chamonix Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates eighteenth Empire England English essay father Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial J. M. W. Turner Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king land landscape liberty Lithuanian living London medieval memory Mickiewicz modern Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk original Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish political Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbol Tacitus Tadeusz temple Thames Thomas thought timber tion tradition trans trees turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite