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 tension between physical and metaphysical exertion is, for example, at the
heart of the most famous of all early climbing narratives: the poet Petrarch's
ascent of Mont Ventoux in April I336.55 Some scholars continue to speculate
whether ...
The tension between physical and metaphysical exertion is, for example, at the
heart of the most famous of all early climbing narratives: the poet Petrarch's
ascent of Mont Ventoux in April I336.55 Some scholars continue to speculate
whether ...
Pagina 491
And it is, of course, this candid record of human frailty that makes Saus- sure's
account of his climb so compelling, and its author so endearing. It was the
Voyages dans les Alpes, put into the hands of the fifteen-year-old Ruskin, that
converted ...
And it is, of course, this candid record of human frailty that makes Saus- sure's
account of his climb so compelling, and its author so endearing. It was the
Voyages dans les Alpes, put into the hands of the fifteen-year-old Ruskin, that
converted ...
Pagina 492
So, as all historians of the climb have noted, Bourrit invented a version of the
event which, by featuring Balmat as the hero, would appeal to the fashionable
cult of the common man and leave Paccard as the fumbling academic, crawling ...
So, as all historians of the climb have noted, Bourrit invented a version of the
event which, by featuring Balmat as the hero, would appeal to the fashionable
cult of the common man and leave Paccard as the fumbling academic, crawling ...
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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 |
| Citatie exporteren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |