some LANDSCAPES

Théodore Rousseau, Swamp in the Landes , after 1844 I have been so impressed by Kelly Presutti's Land into Landscape that I can't r...

François-Auguste Biard, Magdalena Bay , 1841  Having written last time about Victor Hugo I will add something here about his lover Léonie d...

Victor Hugo, Mushroom , 1850 Earlier this week, writing about Tirzah Garwood , I referred to landscapes in art that appear uncanny because t...

When in the past I have added extra features to Some Landscapes, I have tried to include some new material at the same time.  What follows w...

Claude Monet, Étretat, la porte d'Aval: fishing boats leaving the harbour , c1885 This post begins with Claude Monet at É tretat,...

Landscape is a central theme of Graham Robb's fascinating book The Discovery of France (2007). He is continually overturning the rea...