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 284
... better way to demonstrate the succession from a pagan to a Christian empire than to carry out a comparable relocation . It helped , of course , that in Domenico Fontana the pope had an engineer ( in fact a hydraulic engineer ) of genius ...
... better way to demonstrate the succession from a pagan to a Christian empire than to carry out a comparable relocation . It helped , of course , that in Domenico Fontana the pope had an engineer ( in fact a hydraulic engineer ) of genius ...
Pagina 312
... better of him . But the power and persuasiveness of the epic lay in its candid recitation of ordeals , as well as breathless ejaculation at wonders . Though in some details and structure it may have been based as much on the Spanish ...
... better of him . But the power and persuasiveness of the epic lay in its candid recitation of ordeals , as well as breathless ejaculation at wonders . Though in some details and structure it may have been based as much on the Spanish ...
Pagina 315
... better pioneer of the repression of the British imperial libido than its most famous Elizabethan fornicator : the Great Lucifer commissioned to fight against Sin ! Strategic virtue seemed to pay off . At the junction of the Orinoco and ...
... better pioneer of the repression of the British imperial libido than its most famous Elizabethan fornicator : the Great Lucifer commissioned to fight against Sin ! Strategic virtue seemed to pay off . At the junction of the Orinoco 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