Fr. Robert Griffin, longtime chaplain of Notre Dame, wrote: "If you want to belong, you have to learn the myth. You have to wrap your heart and mind in it. You have to believe that the merest rocks of the place tell a story."
With practiced eye and love of the subject, professional photographer and Notre Dame alumnus Matt Cashore here presents a unique feast of images that tell a story by capturing the tradition, beauty and forward thrust of this famous University.
The text, by well-known Notre Dame author and editor Kerry Temple, adds verbal pictures of life in this place with reflections on the comings and goings, traditions, night, winter and lakes. His Introduction evokes powerful feelings of being here, studying here, working here, in a relationship that lasts a lifetime.
Together, Cashore and Temple go beyond form and function in a way that allows buildings and the campus itself to speak in a visual celebration of humble beginnings, steadfast fidelity, inspired aspirations and a bold outreach to the future that builds upon rather than ignores the past. Cashore’s photographs offer a coherent vision of old and new. Here are fresh ways to view the main building and dome, the grotto and the lakes; and here too are the newer and most recent buildings, such as the Jordan Hall of Science and the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, remarkable buildings that symbolize the University’s commitment to excellence in all of its pursuits..
The images and words in this book are meant to elicit memories and also to inspire hope. This books celebrates Notre Dame, past, present and future in a style worthy of the place and its people.
MATT CASHORE is a 1994 graduate of Notre Dame. Matt's projects with Notre Dame Magazine have taken him from the Notre Dame campus to assignments around the country and the world.
KERRY TEMPLE, a 1974 Notre Dame graduate, joined Notre Dame Magazine in 1981 and has been editor since 1995. He has written extensively about Notre Dame, edited books with Notre Dame themes, and has taught at the University. Recipient of national writing awards, he is the author of Back to Earth: A Backpacker’s Journey into Self and Soul.
REVIEWS:
"A picture perfect view of Notre Dame...whether it's Cashore sticking his neck out of a helicopter to get a shot of the scaffolding of the Golden Dome or going out on Christmas night to capture the Grotto with the Golden Dome somehow peeking through the trees, he has a knack of knowing when to go for it." --The South Bend Tribune
"This lavishly colorful book includes Cashore's photographs of Notre Dame's campus landscape, interiors and people in varied seasons, lights and moods, as well as a contemplative essay in which Temple uniquely interweaves natural description, spiritual longing autobiography and local history." --Michael Garvey
And, from a customer:
"I just received Celebrating Notre Dame and want you to know it's the finest representation of the 'multidimensional' essence of Notre Dame that I have ever seen. What a masterpiece in words and pictures!"
Photography by Matt Cashore
Text by Kerry Temple
Foreword by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
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评分说实话,我原本对这种偏向历史或建筑学的书籍抱有保留态度,总觉得会是冗长而枯燥的文献堆砌。然而,这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其出色,它巧妙地将宏大的历史背景与鲜活的个人故事穿插融合,读起来竟有一种引人入胜的张力。我惊喜地发现,作者并非只是简单地罗列日期和事件,而是通过挖掘那些在圣母院阴影下生活过的小人物的命运——比如那些敲钟人、负责维护的石匠,甚至是那些前来朝圣的普通信徒——来展现时代变迁对个体生命产生的深刻影响。这种微观视角的切入,极大地增强了作品的代入感和情感共鸣。特别是书中对几个关键历史转折点,如宗教改革或某些重大城市规划变动时,圣母院所扮演的“沉默的见证者”角色的论述,视角独特而富有洞察力。它让我意识到,一座伟大的建筑,其意义远超其物理存在,它承载了民族的集体记忆与无声的抗争。这本书的语言风格也十分多变,时而如严谨的学者般考证翔实,时而又像深情的诗人般倾诉衷肠,这种平衡感非常难得。
评分这部作品散发着一种令人心醉的怀旧气息,仿佛带我回到了那个辉煌的年代,亲眼见证了巴黎圣母院那些石雕与飞扶壁如何在岁月的洗礼中凝固成永恒的篇章。作者对建筑细节的描摹,细腻得像是用最精密的画笔勾勒出的圣像,每一个玫瑰花窗的光影变幻,每一处 gargoyle(滴水嘴兽)的狞笑都栩栩如生。我尤其欣赏他对中世纪匠人精神的刻画,那种近乎宗教般的虔诚与对完美的执着追求,让人深思现代社会中“慢工出细活”的价值是否已被遗忘。阅读过程中,我仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫的熏香和潮湿的石头气味,耳畔萦绕着管风琴低沉的吟唱。它不仅仅是对一座建筑的记录,更像是一部关于信仰、艺术与人类不屈意志的史诗。那些关于哥特式拱券力学原理的讨论,虽然技术性强,却被作者以近乎诗歌的语言阐述出来,即便是非专业读者也能感受到其中蕴含的震撼人心的结构美学。这本书成功地将冰冷的石头赋予了温度和灵魂,让人对人类文明留下的物质遗产肃然起敬,并对那些矗立了数个世纪的奇迹心生敬畏。
评分我必须承认,这本书的学术深度超乎我的想象,它在某种程度上更像是一部关于欧洲中世纪文化心理学的深度研究,而圣母院只是一个绝佳的切入点。作者在探讨其建造过程中所体现的哲学思想和神学象征意义时,展现了令人折服的广博学识。例如,关于光线如何被引入中殿,被解读为“神圣之光”的象征,以及其对中世纪晚期神秘主义思潮的影响,这些论述层次分明,逻辑严密。阅读这本书需要一定的专注力,因为它不提供轻松的消遣,而是邀请读者进入一个复杂的知识体系中进行探索。我特别赞赏作者对不同历史时期对圣母院解读的梳理,从最初的虔诚崇拜到启蒙运动时期的理性批判,再到浪漫主义复兴时的狂热追捧,这种多重诠释的对比,揭示了文化视角是如何塑造我们对“永恒”的理解的。全书的引文和参考资料非常扎实,极大地增加了其可信度和后续研究的价值,对于任何对欧洲中世纪艺术史感兴趣的人来说,这都是一本不可或缺的工具书。
评分我是在一个非常偶然的机会接触到这本书的,起初只是随便翻阅,却很快被其中那种充满生命力的叙事所吸引,它完全颠覆了我对严肃历史著作的刻板印象。这本书的行文风格极其流畅,节奏明快,仿佛作者是带着一种急切的心情,想把自己所知道的一切都毫无保留地倾诉给读者。它没有采用那种高高在上的学术腔调,而是用一种近乎朋友间的私语,娓娓道来关于这座宏伟建筑的点点滴滴——关于它的设计灵感来源,关于那些被隐藏在墙壁夹层中的小秘密,甚至还有关于建造过程中那些有趣的轶闻轶事。这种接地气的叙述方式,极大地降低了阅读门槛,让复杂的建筑历史变得生动有趣,充满了人情味。读完后,我对巴黎圣母院的认知,不再是教科书上的一张扁平图片,而是一个立体、多面、充满故事的生命体。这本书的魅力就在于,它成功地将“宏大叙事”与“个人好奇心”完美地结合在了一起,读起来非常过瘾,让人忍不住一口气读完,并且强力推荐给那些平时不怎么读历史书的朋友们。
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