some LANDSCAPES
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Great Fear on the Mountain
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I still occasionally end up buying a book for its cover, or at least picking it out to look at on that basis. This one (published last year)...
Friday, March 07, 2025
Sahara Project
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Tate Modern's Electric Dreams exhibition includes the film Tele-Mack, shot in 1968, featuring the work of West German artist Heinz Mack...
Friday, February 28, 2025
Pine River and Lone Peak
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I've been looking in this 1991 anthology for any interesting landscape-related poems that Peter H. Lee didn't include in The Colu...
Friday, February 07, 2025
Maps of Other Possibilities
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Yesterday I went to a wonderful event at Tate Britain devoted to the Bow Gamelan Ensemble. There were three short films and then a conversat...
Friday, January 31, 2025
An Outcrop in the Campagna
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Frederic Leighton, A Nile View , 1868 'The keynote of this landscape is a soft, variant, fawn-coloured brown, than which nothing could ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Architecton
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Here are J. M. W. Turner's The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons (1810) and an explosive rock fall in Victor Kossakovsky's new e...
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Monday, December 30, 2024
His shade protects the plains, his head the hills commands
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"The Oak," observes Mr. Gilpin, "is confessedly the most picturesque tree in itself, and the most accommodating in compositio...
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