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 14
... beneath layers of the commonplace . So Landscape and Memory is constructed as an excavation below our conven- tional sight - level to recover the veins of myth and memory that lie beneath the surface . The " cathedral grove , " for ...
... beneath layers of the commonplace . So Landscape and Memory is constructed as an excavation below our conven- tional sight - level to recover the veins of myth and memory that lie beneath the surface . The " cathedral grove , " for ...
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... beneath the verdure and tombs in the deep glades of oak and fir . The fields and forests and rivers had seen war and terror , elation and desperation ; death and resur- rection ; Lithuanian kings and Teutonic knights , partisans and ...
... beneath the verdure and tombs in the deep glades of oak and fir . The fields and forests and rivers had seen war and terror , elation and desperation ; death and resur- rection ; Lithuanian kings and Teutonic knights , partisans and ...
Pagina 361
... Beneath the late afternoon light , drenched in gold , a game of cricket proceeds at its hallowed , leisurely pace . It is immortal England laid out on the stream . No wonder the duke of Wellington liked it enough to lend Turner and his ...
... Beneath the late afternoon light , drenched in gold , a game of cricket proceeds at its hallowed , leisurely pace . It is immortal England laid out on the stream . No wonder the duke of Wellington liked it enough to lend Turner and his ...
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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