Саймон Шама

Simon Schama's magisterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions of the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this magnificent work he bring...

The second volume of Simon Schama's acclaimed history of Britain, a magnificent companion to the History Channel's successful series Simon Schama, one of the world's most distinguished historians, covers the most tumultuous eras of Britain's past in this second installment of his epic history of Britain. Schama's powerful, dramatic narrative focuses on political and soc...

Simon Schama, one the most celebrated historians of our day, brings the history of Britain to dramatic life in this landmark work. Schama reanimates historical figures and events, and draws them skillfully into a powerful and profound narrative that combines passion and scholarship with a superb sense of storytelling. At the Edge of the World, the first volume of Schama’s monumental work, moves...

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 triumphan...

Непревзойденный мастер популярного исторического повествования Саймон Шама с блеском профессионального романиста и скрупулезностью профессионального историка создает динамичный и объемный образ Нидерландов XVII века, – тех времен, когда уроженец Лейдена Рембрандт ван Рейн, триумфально продемонстрировав, каких высот способна достичь голландская живопись, на многие века завоевал звание величайшего и...

"Great art has dreadful manners," Simon Schama observes wryly at the start of his epic and explosive exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. "The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite

It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the odds. It spans the millennia and the continents - from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It is a story of a Jewish world immersed in and imprinted by the peoples among whom they have dwelled, from the Egyp...

"У великого искусства ужасные манеры!" С первых строк этого драматичного повествования становится очевидно: знаменитый историк и популяризатор науки Саймон Шама не намерен примерять на себя роль авторитетного музейного гида, неспешно ведущего от шедевра к шедевру доверчивую группу жаждущих прикоснуться к прекрасному. А потому не надейтесь на легкую прогулку по музейным залам — вместо нее эксцентри...

Simon Schama's magisterial new book encompasses over 1,500 years of Britain's history, from the first Roman invasions of the early seventeenth century, and the extraordinary reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Schama, the author of the highly acclaimed Citizens and The Embarrassment of Riches, is one of the most popular and celebrated historians of our day, and in this magnificent work he bring...

The second volume of Simon Schama's acclaimed history of Britain, a magnificent companion to the History Channel's successful series Simon Schama, one of the world's most distinguished historians, covers the most tumultuous eras of Britain's past in this second installment of his epic history of Britain. Schama's powerful, dramatic narrative focuses on political and soc...

Simon Schama, one the most celebrated historians of our day, brings the history of Britain to dramatic life in this landmark work. Schama reanimates historical figures and events, and draws them skillfully into a powerful and profound narrative that combines passion and scholarship with a superb sense of storytelling. At the Edge of the World, the first volume of Schama’s monumental work, moves...

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 triumphan...

Непревзойденный мастер популярного исторического повествования Саймон Шама с блеском профессионального романиста и скрупулезностью профессионального историка создает динамичный и объемный образ Нидерландов XVII века, – тех времен, когда уроженец Лейдена Рембрандт ван Рейн, триумфально продемонстрировав, каких высот способна достичь голландская живопись, на многие века завоевал звание величайшего и...