Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Robert Darnton: The Case for Books
- Transcript
Good afternoon and welcome to the Gardner Museum. This is our fourth landscape visions lecture. This series and today we're very fortunate to have Mark Harris here who will talk about changes in cemeteries the changes in cemeteries and cemetery landscapes that are taking place because of the desire to practice natural and more ecological burials. So this year's series is called the landscape of eternity and we've been examining landscape traditions that have changed over the years but have existed because of our natural and symbolic responses to realisation. The afterlife and burial. We've got one more lecture in our series that will take place on Saturday March 20th at 1:30 p.m. on Landscape Architect historian and the former curator of
landscape here at the museum. Patrick Show us a will speak about the monumental landscape new ways of remembering. So I welcome you to pick up a card at the back of the hall that describes that a little bit about this lecture. And if you're not on our e-mail list sign up please and we'll send you information about not only the upcoming lecture but next year's series too. The lecture today I think is particularly timely many of us really can relate to this topic. I live in Arlington Massachusetts in our community. We have a cemetery that was established in the tradition of rural cemeteries called Mount Pleasant cemetery. And it's nearing capacity within four years. There will be no more burial space in that cemetery. So Arlington for the last several years has been exploring alternative sites and alternative methods of
burial. One that I'm at.
- Collection
- Harvard Book Store
- Series
- WGBH Forum Network
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-wh2d795q0v
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- Description
- Description
- Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, discusses the historical and cultural importance of the printed word.In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton, an intellectual pioneer in the field of the history of the book and director of Harvard University's Library, offers an in-depth examination of the book from its earliest beginnings to its shifting role today in popular culture, commerce, and the academy. As an author, editorial advisor, and publishing entrepreneur, Darnton is a unique authority on the life and role of the book in society. This book is a wise work of scholarship--one that requires readers to carefully consider how the digital revolution will broadly affect the marketplace of ideas.In The Devil in the Holy Water, Darnton offers a startling new perspective on the origins of the French Revolution and the development of a revolutionary political culture in the years after 1789. He opens with an account of the colony of French refugees in London who churned out slanderous attacks on public figures in Versailles and of the secret agents sent over from Paris to squelch them. The libelers were not above extorting money for pretending to destroy the print runs of books they had duped the government agents into believing existed; the agents were not above recognizing the lucrative nature of such activities--and changing sides.
- Date
- 2010-02-03
- Topics
- Literature
- Subjects
- History; Culture & Identity
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:02:18
- Credits
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Distributor: WGBH
Speaker2: Darnton, Robert
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: fa29c3931cc4470de2244d3a6272ee4b5bedf8d5 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Robert Darnton: The Case for Books,” 2010-02-03, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 7, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wh2d795q0v.
- MLA: “Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Robert Darnton: The Case for Books.” 2010-02-03. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 7, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wh2d795q0v>.
- APA: Harvard Book Store; WGBH Forum Network; Robert Darnton: The Case for Books. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-wh2d795q0v