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 191
... seemed to vindicate the American national intuition that colossal grandeur spoke to the soul . It was precisely because the red columns of this sub- limely American temple had not been constructed by the hand of man that they seemed ...
... seemed to vindicate the American national intuition that colossal grandeur spoke to the soul . It was precisely because the red columns of this sub- limely American temple had not been constructed by the hand of man that they seemed ...
Pagina 343
... seemed to vanish in the dissolving boundary between earth and sky , mortality and immortality . At right angles lay another of Le Nôtre's great canals , six years in the making , much wider and longer of course than its equivalent at ...
... seemed to vanish in the dissolving boundary between earth and sky , mortality and immortality . At right angles lay another of Le Nôtre's great canals , six years in the making , much wider and longer of course than its equivalent at ...
Pagina 549
... seemed without point or purpose . He seemed doomed like tens of thousands of his old comrades - in - arms to drag out his days as a lame and shabby fugitive in his own country . For a while he managed to get work as janitor of the army ...
... seemed without point or purpose . He seemed doomed like tens of thousands of his old comrades - in - arms to drag out his days as a lame and shabby fugitive in his own country . For a while he managed to get work as janitor of the army ...
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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