Landscape and MemoryA 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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The colossal dam and the hydroelectric power station as emblems of
omnipotence were for modern despots what the Nile irrigation canals were for the
Pharaohs. Steaming along the Volga- Don canal to which countless thousands of
slave ...
The colossal dam and the hydroelectric power station as emblems of
omnipotence were for modern despots what the Nile irrigation canals were for the
Pharaohs. Steaming along the Volga- Don canal to which countless thousands of
slave ...
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But his landscaped solution, set out in the article, was a peculiar mixture of
modern entertainment and pastoral sentimentality. As well as the glasshouses to
be set in the park, Downing envisaged shows of industrial arts, a glazed zoo, and
a ...
But his landscaped solution, set out in the article, was a peculiar mixture of
modern entertainment and pastoral sentimentality. As well as the glasshouses to
be set in the park, Downing envisaged shows of industrial arts, a glazed zoo, and
a ...
Pagina 609
Ruskin, Modern Painters, 4:486-87. 100. Ibid., 133-34. Chapter Nine: Arcadia
Redesigntd this book, as well as to conversations with Professor Ackcrman. 1.
Erwin Panofsky, "Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition," in idem.,
...
Ruskin, Modern Painters, 4:486-87. 100. Ibid., 133-34. Chapter Nine: Arcadia
Redesigntd this book, as well as to conversations with Professor Ackcrman. 1.
Erwin Panofsky, "Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition," in idem.,
...
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LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY
Gebruikersrecensie - KirkusWith this fascinating, encyclopedic survey of cultural landscapes, Schama (Dead Certainties, 1991, etc.) demonstrates once again just why he holds a charmed place in the literature of historical ... Volledige review lezen
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Gebruikersrecensie - JayLivernois - LibraryThingI find this a hard book to finish. It is one of those books it seems difficult to get into although the material is interesting and the thought good. Volledige review lezen
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Landscape and Memory Landscape and Memory, Simon Schama |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Vintage, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0679735127, 9780679735120 |
| Lengte | 652 pagina's |
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