Landscape and Memory by Simon Schama


Landscape And Memory

 

 

Written by Simon Schama

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995

Trade Paperback November 1996 $26.00 978-0-679-73512-0 (0-679-73512-7)

 

 

In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. 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.