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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Pagina 87
... become natural through habit ; what has become necessity soon becomes pleasure . . . . Thus what you would regard as misery is the natural way of life of many peoples.36 The armies of the Caesars may have fought the battles but it was ...
... become natural through habit ; what has become necessity soon becomes pleasure . . . . Thus what you would regard as misery is the natural way of life of many peoples.36 The armies of the Caesars may have fought the battles but it was ...
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... become encumbered in the thick vegetation with their unwieldy spears and long wickerwork shields.11 A series of battles followed , some on a narrow plain from which the defeated Cherusci flee to the safety of the forest , pursued by ...
... become encumbered in the thick vegetation with their unwieldy spears and long wickerwork shields.11 A series of battles followed , some on a narrow plain from which the defeated Cherusci flee to the safety of the forest , pursued by ...
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... become fully converted to Christian use . But what had happened here ? Had the woods become subdued by the priesthood or had the cathedral gone green ? Had , for that matter , the female incarnations of the fecund earth - Gaia and ...
... become fully converted to Christian use . But what had happened here ? Had the woods become subdued by the priesthood or had the cathedral gone green ? Had , for that matter , the female incarnations of the fecund earth - Gaia and ...
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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