Landscape and MemoryA.A. Knopf, 1995 - 652 pagina's "Opening a radically new and original path into history, Simon Schama explores the scenery of our Western culture, both real landscapes and landscapes of the mind that have given us our sense of homeland, the dark woods of our imagined origins. What unfolds is a series of compelling journeys through space and time: from the ancient woodland of Poland, a symbol over the centuries of national endurance, through the forest birthplace of the German psyche, to the Big Trees of Yosemite that gave a new nation its holy past. Through all of history, from pre-classical antiquity to the Third Reich and beyond, Schama uncovers the myths and memories that have stamped themselves on our most basic social instincts and institutions: territorial identity, the wild and domestic, mortality and immortality."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... example , have made works that invoke nature without forcing it into museum - ready shape : " found " sculptures from shoreline driftwood or naturally charred tree limbs ; cairns made from beach pebbles ; or balls of leaves and snow ...
... example , have made works that invoke nature without forcing it into museum - ready shape : " found " sculptures from shoreline driftwood or naturally charred tree limbs ; cairns made from beach pebbles ; or balls of leaves and snow ...
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... example , the forest primeval was the site of tribal self - assertion against the Roman empire of stone and law . In England the greenwood was the place where the king disported his power in the royal hunt yet redressed the injustices ...
... example , the forest primeval was the site of tribal self - assertion against the Roman empire of stone and law . In England the greenwood was the place where the king disported his power in the royal hunt yet redressed the injustices ...
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... example ) , and in psalters , breviaries , and Books of Hours , a tree sprouts from the loins of Jesse and rises heavenward to the Passion , with the Father observing from its crown . So the wooden eleva- tion rises from its carnal root ...
... example ) , and in psalters , breviaries , and Books of Hours , a tree sprouts from the loins of Jesse and rises heavenward to the Passion , with the Father observing from its crown . So the wooden eleva- tion rises from its carnal root ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
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Aby Warburg Alpine Alps American ancient animals Anselm Kiefer arcadia architecture artist Barlow became beneath Bernini Białowieża Big Trees bison Borglum British Cambridge Caspar David Friedrich century Christian church classical climb color illus cross cult culture death Denecourt Dinocrates emblem Empire England English essay famous 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 Lithuanian living London memory Mickiewicz Mont Blanc Mount Mount Rushmore mountain myth nature Nile obelisk Osiris pagan painting Pan Tadeusz Paris park patriotic poet Poland Polish primitive Ralegh Ramond Renaissance river rock Roman Rome royal Ruskin sacred scenery seemed symbols Tacitus temple Thames Thomas Thomas Cole thought timber tion tradition trans turned University valley village Warburg wild wilderness William woodland woods York Yosemite