Landscape and memoryOne of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory 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. "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 chronicle of the Roman Empire beginning with the death of Augustus and
presumably ending with the suicide of Nero (for the last part has been lost) is one
long exercise in ironic contemplation of the discrepancy between lofty purposes ...
The chronicle of the Roman Empire beginning with the death of Augustus and
presumably ending with the suicide of Nero (for the last part has been lost) is one
long exercise in ironic contemplation of the discrepancy between lofty purposes ...
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For Gutzon Borglum, only in the New World empire of America — the most heroic,
the most masculine since the Greeks' — could such a thing be imagined, let
alone executed. And that it had been left to white American manhood to realize
this ...
For Gutzon Borglum, only in the New World empire of America — the most heroic,
the most masculine since the Greeks' — could such a thing be imagined, let
alone executed. And that it had been left to white American manhood to realize
this ...
Pagina 548
The times were desperate enough that even the lame and the halt might be re-
enlisted to defend France against the Coalition armies bearing down fast on what
little remained of the Napoleonic Empire. Denecourt was wounded yet again at ...
The times were desperate enough that even the lame and the halt might be re-
enlisted to defend France against the Coalition armies bearing down fast on what
little remained of the Napoleonic Empire. Denecourt was wounded yet again at ...
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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
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 3 |
Prologue The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Bialowieza bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Chamonix Christian church classical climb color illus course cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates E. H. Gombrich eighteenth Empire England English essay Fontainebleau forest France French garden German Gothic greenwood groves Gutzon Borglum Hermannsdenkmal hills holy hunting Ibid imagined imperial Jews John John Robert Cozens Kiefer king Kowno land landscape 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 primitive Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed Senancour stone symbol Tacitus Tadeusz temple Thames Thomas thought timber tion tradition trees turned village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York
Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Landscape and memory Univers historique |
| Auteur | Simon Schama |
| Editie | geļllustreerd |
| Uitgever | A.A. Knopf, 1995 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of California |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 14 juli 2008 |
| Lengte | 652 pagina's |
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