some LANDSCAPES

Sunday, June 04, 2023

Rheinterrasse

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Photograph of the Rheinterrasse on the third floor of the Berlin Vaterland building, with its view overlooking the river between Sankt Goar ...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Drinking the Rivers of Dartmoor

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A few weeks ago I saw this at the National Gallery's excellent exhibition themed around Saint Francis of Assisi . It reminded me that I ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Jena before us in the lovely valley

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“Jena before us in the lovely valley” This is the beginning of Gottfried Benn's poem 'Jena' (1926), translated by Michael Hoffma...
Sunday, May 07, 2023

Atlantic Flowers

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Last year I bought the latest New Arcadian Journal , Atlantic Flowers: The Naval Memorials of Little Sparta . 'The upland garden of Lit...
Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Örö

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I have been reading Rob St John's Örö (available via Bandcamp ), a book based on fieldwork and experiments undertaken during two periods...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Sussex Waters

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I had been looking forward to ' Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water ' at Pallant House but was sadly too ill to go down and see ...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

A landscape submerged

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The St. Elizabeth's Day Flood , c. 1490-95   During the night of 19 November 1421 a heavy storm caused rivers to surge, dikes to overflo...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There is a pretty long index (see above) listing the artists of all kinds that have been mentioned here. There are also maps and a chronology of posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. Plinus / Andrew Ray.
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