some LANDSCAPES

I recently read this beautiful novel and will mention it here for the way it evokes the Ardennes forest landscape during the winter of 1939-...

Some landscapes in the Ashmolean's exhibition Anselm Kiefer: Early Works , with quotes from the accompanying wall texts.  Der Rhein (The...

I've been on an Irish culture kick over the last month: first the film  Kneecap , then Juno and the Paycock with Mark Rylance and then A...

The cover of Simon Cutts' The Small Press Model is a photograph of his 'forgotten one-word poem' which can be found outside Skel...

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

  The Coat of Arms of Alland, Lower Austria I like the way that when you look somewhere up on Wikipedia you tend to get given its coat of ar...

In July 1942, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Tullio Crali published in Rome a Futurist Manifesto entitled 'Plastic Illusionism of War...

Two years ago I wrote here about the plans-reliefs that Andrew Graham-Dixon visited for a TV documentary - he described them as 'a c...

The Living Stones (1957) is one of two illustrated travelogues written by surrealist Ithell Colquhoun in the mid 1950s and recently re-p...

Watercolour World is a new online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900 which launched at the end of January.  You can u...

Claude Lanzmann died this week - obituaries can be read here , here and here .  For all the praise that Shoah received, it can still fee...

  Earlier today I was looking at these images while listening on headphones to a recording the BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan Thomas made ...

Unidentified artist in the style of Sheng Mou,  Fan painting illustrating Su Shi's 'Second Ode on the Red Cliff',  late 1...

Zhang Fengyi as Cao Cao in John Woo's Red Cliff (2008-9) In a post earlier this month I referred to the musical duel in Red Clif...

If you have access to the BBC iPlayer you can see Andrew Graham-Dixon's latest series, an attempt to tell the story of the Art of Fra...

'There are few sights in England that can quite equal the absurd charm of the imitation Khyber Pass in Hull's East Park.  This sl...

In ' The Eeriness of the English Landscape ' Robert Macfarlane wrote about a growing interest in landscape and the uncanny, with rec...

I did a post here back in 2010 about Trevor Paglen, the artist-geographer who has explored the 'black world' of US military and ...