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 127
... seen barely emerging from the grain of timber . And at the same time , his title Charcoal for Two Thousand Years suggested yet again that the racial archetypes that were proclaimed by the Third Reich to endure for two millennia would do ...
... seen barely emerging from the grain of timber . And at the same time , his title Charcoal for Two Thousand Years suggested yet again that the racial archetypes that were proclaimed by the Third Reich to endure for two millennia would do ...
Pagina 260
... seen as the carriers of havoc and death . The Nilometers at Cairo and Elephantine were only auspicious if they regis- tered exactly the right number of cubits ( sixteen , the same number of parts into which Osiris had been sliced ) as ...
... seen as the carriers of havoc and death . The Nilometers at Cairo and Elephantine were only auspicious if they regis- tered exactly the right number of cubits ( sixteen , the same number of parts into which Osiris had been sliced ) as ...
Pagina 314
... seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes and thornes , here we beheld great plains of twenty miles in length , the grasse shorte and greene and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves as if they had been by all the ...
... seen before was nothing but woods , prickles , bushes and thornes , here we beheld great plains of twenty miles in length , the grasse shorte and greene and in divers parts groves of trees by themselves as if they had been by all the ...
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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