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Landscape And Memory
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Manufacturer: Knopf
Author: Simon Schama
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 1995-04-04
Publisher: Knopf
Label: Knopf
Number Of Pages: 652
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An extraordinary book that explores how the earth itself has shaped the Western imagination and how, as a result, our interaction with the environment is far richer and more complex than today's doomsayers would have us believe.
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Sheer Brilliance  2008-08-02
Unlike Schama's bloated and unsatisfying Rembrandt's Eyes, Landscape and Memory shows the author to be just as adept an art historian as a social and political historian (as in for instance his acclaimed Citizens and Embarrassment of Riches). Landscape and Memory posits that our ideas of nature are always formed first and foremost by our ideas of culture. Each chapter works out this thesis with a different landscape setting or landscape-oriented art work, deftly traversing a multitude of cultures and centuries. Particularly fascinating is Schama's discussion of Germany's Black Forest mythology and its ramifications for everything from the Nazis' ultra-nationalistic propaganda to the post-modern paintings of Gerhard Richter. His discussion of the creation of Mount Rushmore is thrilling and, at times, very humorous, and is easily worth the cost of the book all by itself. Landscape and Memory is highly recommended for general readers with an interest in art or cultural history. It's a great book.
Meditaions  2008-01-20
I read this book while considering a career in landscape architecture. It works as an aid to history of landscape architecture course one would review. It is very entertaining using our relationship with the land to cover a wide range of topics such as political movements, biography, art, etc. Most of this is covered as anecdotes so you will probably be very more interested in some parts while bored by others. But the parts that interest you will make you hungry for more information or your own trips to the west, mountain climbing, or searching through now obscure travel guides.
Schama does it again 2007-01-25
Simon Schama writes in a clear, concise and interesting way. As a purely fiction reader I never thought I could plough through factual stuff - in fact I'd tried and failed many times - then i read my first Schama - about the Slave trade - Rough Crossings - and now I'm working my way through his works. If a philistine like me can read, learn and enjoy from them then they must be good.
The world seen on another sphere 2007-01-04
I love Schama's work ! His approach is always original and this book is proof of his creative mind, once again, at work. I have lived and worked on both sides of the Atlantic for more than 25 years and I thoroughly appreciate the way Schama has brought me to see the rhyme & reason to the cultural quirks I've come across in all these countries. The umbrella effect in action ! For a younger adult today, studying art, social dynamics, economics or even psychiatry there is food for thought !
450 pages too long  2005-06-08
The author had a great idea for a book. He collected enough 'meat' for about 30-50 pages and then exploded it into almost 500 pages of boring talk, so typical of many historians.
There are a few gems in this book and those few who manage to persevere through the boredom of the text may find it somewhat rewarding. Had the author written a 50-page book that covers the essence of what he has to offer, this would have been a four or five star book.
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