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 138
... scenery : forest scenery . Yet he closed his long and superb account " with a sigh " because he did not think its unkempt splendors would be likely to survive the apparently insatiable demand for naval timber that was leading to acre ...
... scenery : forest scenery . Yet he closed his long and superb account " with a sigh " because he did not think its unkempt splendors would be likely to survive the apparently insatiable demand for naval timber that was leading to acre ...
Pagina 417
... scenery of the Netherlands made its blessed unearthliness more pow- erful . Once the Netherlandish Jeromes made their way to Italy in the late fifteenth century , they were evidently successful enough to have produced local variants ...
... scenery of the Netherlands made its blessed unearthliness more pow- erful . Once the Netherlandish Jeromes made their way to Italy in the late fifteenth century , they were evidently successful enough to have produced local variants ...
Pagina 469
... scenery had long been imag- ined in London as the epitome of barbaric rudeness , and the language spoken by the natives the phonetic equivalent of the landscape . But the massive pull of centralization that came with revolutionized ...
... scenery had long been imag- ined in London as the epitome of barbaric rudeness , and the language spoken by the natives the phonetic equivalent of the landscape . But the massive pull of centralization that came with revolutionized ...
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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