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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Pagina 205
... stone ruins of a Gothic church so that the architectural form of sacred botany returns , as it were , to its true nature . In its pair , the huge cross domi- nating the foreground seems , even when its unfinished condition is taken into ...
... stone ruins of a Gothic church so that the architectural form of sacred botany returns , as it were , to its true nature . In its pair , the huge cross domi- nating the foreground seems , even when its unfinished condition is taken into ...
Pagina 259
... stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables from the region of Mendes survive , and have been carefully dis- cussed by Vivian Hibbs . 33 Displaying an ingenious symbolic economy , the wine ...
... stone libation tables , sited by the riverbanks . Eighteen of these chiselled tables from the region of Mendes survive , and have been carefully dis- cussed by Vivian Hibbs . 33 Displaying an ingenious symbolic economy , the wine ...
Pagina 289
... stone mass and running water , Bernini wanted to bring them together in one fluid , musical sequence . To suc- ceed in dissolving these substances in a glorious run of light , sound , and motion seemed the great response to ...
... stone mass and running water , Bernini wanted to bring them together in one fluid , musical sequence . To suc- ceed in dissolving these substances in a glorious run of light , sound , and motion seemed the great response to ...
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The Detour | 23 |
CHAPTER ONE In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison | 37 |
ii | 43 |
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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