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The Alpine Enlightenment
A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740!--StartFragment --–!--EndFragment --99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During his prodigious climbs into the upper ranges of the Alps, Saussure focused intensely on the natural phenomena he encountered—glaciers, crevasses, changes in the weather, and shifts in the color of the sky—and he described with great precision what he saw, heard, and touched. Kete uses Saussure’s evocative writings, which emphasized above all physical engagement with the earth, to uncover not just how people during the Enlightenment thought about nature, but how they experienced it. As Kete shows, Saussure thought with and through his body: he harnessed his senses to understand the forces that shaped the world around him. In so doing, he offered a vision of nature as worthy of respect independent of human needs, anticipating present-day concerns about the environment and our shared place within it.
Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World
The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature...
Mont-blanc
Dans la collection fabuleuse de gravures, lithographies, peintures, dessins rassemblée par le Chamoniard Paul Payot (1912-1977), le " royaume du Mont-Blanc " mire à l'infini le spectacle changeant de ses splendeurs. Cet ouvrage, fruit de dix ans de recherches, propose un choix de plus de quatre cents œuvres dues au talent d'artistes des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. " Portrait " après " portrait ", le Mont-Blanc se découvre sous les masques inconnus, nouveaux et fascinants dont l'imaginaire des pionniers du " voyage aux glacières " l'a paré. " Sublime " ou " horrible ", séducteur ou redouté, " paradis terrestre " ou repaire de démons, le Mont-Blanc obsède et enchante. Qu'il éblouisse ...
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Autour des Van Loo
Puissante dynastie de peintres qui s'est constituée au cours des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, les Van Loo ont été au cœur des grands événements culturels de leur temps. Jacob Van Loo (1614-1670) a fréquenté Vermeer et Rembrandt, avant de s'enfuir vers la France et d'y devenir membre de l'Académie royale de peinture. On retrouve ses descendants dans toutes les cours et les académies de peinture d’Europe.Les Van Loo ne s’en tiennent cependant pas à la peinture. Louis-Michel Van Loo (1707-1771), premier peintre du roi d’Espagne, représentait en même temps l’une des grandes entreprises textiles lyonnaises : il avait pour clients la famille royale, des aristocrates, des ambassad...
