Landscape And Memory
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679735127 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to theredhare. Fantastic read. WAGNER MATTOS said Five Stars. Fantástico!!!. Excellent historically-informed philosophy from a great mind Surprisingly, the other reviewers on this site seem to have missed the point of the book. The point is that our perceptions of nature are not merely historically informed, but historically constituted. The irrespressable Lithuanian Bison was the formative metaphor for the Lithuanian pagan cultural ideal
One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the YearIn Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. It will absorb, instruct, and fascinate."--New York Review of Books. 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 scopeconsistently provocative and revealing."--New York Times"Extraordinarya summary cannot convey the riches of this book
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. . From Publishers Weekly Historian Schama explores the roles that have been played by landscapes in myth, art and culture