by Simon Schama
- Author(s)
- Simon Schama
- Publication, year
- London : HarperCollins Publishers, 1995
- Scope
- 655 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780679402558
In this book Simon Schama takes us beyond geololgy and vegetation when he explores the role of landscape in myth, art and culture. Full of wondrous and forgotten lore, his mind-expanding study links the Egyptian myth of Osiris, sacrified king-god of the Nile, to pagan traditions of the sacred stream, Christian baptism and modern images of the fertile, fatal river. He follows woodlands-based myths of utopian primitivism from Tacitus through German Romanticism, the work of contemporary painter Anselm Kiefer and the militant nationalism that culminated in Hitler. Ranging freely over Western literature, history, art and mythology, Schama examines Mount Rushmore as an icon of democracy, unfenced suburban lawns as symbols of social solidarity, Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome, Sir Walter Raleigh's journey to Guiana, Thoreau's meditations at Walden Pond.
- Location
- Cabinet 24 - 5: Landschap ; Landschapsarchitectuur
- Extra themes
- Art Nature and Landscape
- Remarks
- Incl. notes, Bibliography and Index.
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