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 124
... things on his mind than silk - screened Marilyns . And to express those things , he needed a reinvention of traditional forms ; above all , landscape and history painting . What he did was to collapse the one into the other , exactly ...
... things on his mind than silk - screened Marilyns . And to express those things , he needed a reinvention of traditional forms ; above all , landscape and history painting . What he did was to collapse the one into the other , exactly ...
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... things but their immaterial essence.62 From Plotinus onward , neo - Platonists ( without actually understanding any- thing authentically Egyptian ) adopted hieroglyphs as the vehicle of transcen- dental apprehension , a language not ...
... things but their immaterial essence.62 From Plotinus onward , neo - Platonists ( without actually understanding any- thing authentically Egyptian ) adopted hieroglyphs as the vehicle of transcen- dental apprehension , a language not ...
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... thing of herbaceous borders and bedding annuals rather than the “ impervious and quaking swamp . ” I have spent these ... things that we can plant upon it . And though it may some- times seem that our impatient appetite for produce has ...
... thing of herbaceous borders and bedding annuals rather than the “ impervious and quaking swamp . ” I have spent these ... things that we can plant upon it . And though it may some- times seem that our impatient appetite for produce has ...
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