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 99
... living bowers , the columns and vaults sprouting tendrils and leaves . In some of the most elaborately organic examples in south Germany , twists of boughs and branches , bursting with foliage , rose into a living , naturally canopied ...
... living bowers , the columns and vaults sprouting tendrils and leaves . In some of the most elaborately organic examples in south Germany , twists of boughs and branches , bursting with foliage , rose into a living , naturally canopied ...
Pagina 191
... living monuments of pristine America . Suddenly Yosemite became a sym- bol of a landscape that was beyond the reach of sectional conflict , a primordial place of such transcendent beauty that it proclaimed the gift of the Creator to his ...
... living monuments of pristine America . Suddenly Yosemite became a sym- bol of a landscape that was beyond the reach of sectional conflict , a primordial place of such transcendent beauty that it proclaimed the gift of the Creator to his ...
Pagina 225
... living trees ; of the world and the spirit ; of knowledge and life . Callot's Tree of St. Francis modifies the Franciscan piety of the Gaddi fresco to a more missionary form . Twelve apos- tles venerate the tree in which the Trinity is ...
... living trees ; of the world and the spirit ; of knowledge and life . Callot's Tree of St. Francis modifies the Franciscan piety of the Gaddi fresco to a more missionary form . Twelve apos- tles venerate the tree in which the Trinity is ...
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