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Results for 'simon schama'
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The Cauldron
The Making of the Modern Middle EastA history of the Middle East - from Morocco, Yemen and Iran to Sudan, Israel and Turkey - since 1900, from the no.1 bestselling author of JERUSALEM
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The Embarrassment of Riches
An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age€ 32,99 -
Birds
het puttertje, mens en vogelOnze blijvende fascinatie voor vogels door de ogen van de internationaal gerenommeerde (kunst)historicus Simon Schama ‘Geen enkel ander schepsel dan de vogel heeft zich zo obsessief en alomtegenwoordig in onze rusteloze, aardse verbeelding genesteld.’ – Simon Schama Van Icarus tot Peter Pan – wie droomt er niet van vliegen? Vogels belichamen onze verlangens, angsten en fantasieën. In deze publicatie onderzoeken internationaal gerenommeerd (kunst)historicus Simon Schama en directeur van het Mauritshuis Martine Gosselink de fascinerende relatie tussen mens en vogel aan de hand van kunst, literatuur en cultuurgeschiedenis. Het wereldberoemde Puttertje van Carel Fabritius, Picasso’s Duif, Brancusi’s Vogel in de ruimte, een Egyptische valkenmummie, een verenjurk van Iris van Herpen: dit boek is een visuele en literaire reis door eeuwen van vogelverbeelding. Kers op de taart is een prachtige bloemlezing met vogelverhalen uit onder andere Het Gilgamesj-eposen Duizenden-een-nacht, én vogelpoëzie van schrijvers als Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley en Rūmī. Met tekstbijdragen van Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer en Adrienne Quarles van Ufford. Deze publicatie verschijnt naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schama in Mauritshuis, Den Haag van 12 februari tot 7 juni 2026.
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Anselm Kiefer. Sag mir wo die Blumen sind
De gerenommeerde Britse historicus Simon Schama schrijft het hoofdessay, waarin hij Kiefers ongeëvenaarde belang in de kunstgeschiedenis bepleit. Schama reisde speciaal hiervoor naar de studio van Kiefer in Croissy voor een uitgebreid gesprek met de kunstenaar. Kunsthistorica Antje von Graevenitz gaat onder meer in op de vraag hoe het werk van Kiefer in Nederland werd ontvangen. Anselm Kiefer zelf vertelt in de catalogus waar zijn fascinatie voor het werk van Vincent van Gogh vandaan komt. Onderzoeker bij het Stedelijk Tamara Klopper voegt hieraan een overzicht toe van de belangrijkste momenten in Kiefers leven en carrière.
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The World According to Colour
A Cultural HistoryA book to brighten the dullest days
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Iran: Empire of the Mind
A History from Zoroaster to the Present DayIran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis and president Mahmud Ahmadinejad - a controversial figure within as well as outside the country - this guide traces an account of Iran's past.
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How to Fight Anti-Semitism
Her childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh was the site of last year's Shabbat morning massacre. This passionate, vividly written, regularly insightful book is her pained, fighting
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The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
Superb, highly readable and definitive ... One of the world’s leading crusades scholars ... Phillips's narrative of Saladin's career is vivid and judicious, punctuated by set pieces that charge along like battle scenes from Game of Thrones
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The Land Where Lemons Grow
The Story of Italy and its Citrus FruitA book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits. Combining travel writing with history, recipes, horticulture and art, it takes the reader on a unique and rich journey through Italy's cultural, moral, culinary and political past.
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Birds
The Goldfinch, Birds, Art and Us‘No other creatures have fixed themselves so obsessively and ubiquitously in our restless, earth-stuck imagination as birds… the fixation painted, imprinted, sculpted, filmed in our art.’– Simon Schama From Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn’t dreamt of flying? Birds are the embodiment of our desires, fears and fantasies. In this publication internationally renowned (art) historian Simon Schama and Mauritshuis director Martine Gosselink explore the fascinating relationship between humans and birds through art, literature and cultural history. Carel Fabritius’s world-famous Goldfinch, Picasso’s Dove, Brancusi’s Bird in Space, an Egyptian falcon mummy, a feather dress by Iris van Herpen: this book is a visual and literary journey through centuries of bird imagery. The icing on the cake is a wonderful anthology of bird stories from, among other works, The Epic of Gilgamesh and One Thousand and One Nights, as well as bird poems by such writers as Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley and Rūmī. With contributions by Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer and Adrienne Quarles van Ufford. This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch & Simon Schamain Mauritshuis, The Hague from 12 February to 7 June 2026.
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Foreign Bodies
The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of ScienceAn epic story of humanity’s struggle against pandemics from the renowned historian and broadcaster
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A Fistful of Shells
West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of RevolutionA Fistful of Shells is the fruit of research conducted in the archives of nine nations and required the author to undertake fieldwork across eight West African states. It shows. [...] This is a stunning work of research and argumentation. It has the potential to become a landmark in our understanding of the most misunderstood of continents.
€ 20,95