some LANDSCAPES

The Sarashina Nikki was translated in 1971 by Ivan Lewis with the evocative title As I Crossed A Bridge of Dreams . Its author’s name, li...

Pierre Auguste Renoir, The Piazza San Marco, Venice , 1881 Some artists seem hard to like initially, but you grow to appreciate them...

New Directions have published a translation of César Aira’s novella, An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter , first published in 2000...

Cézanne famously aimed to ‘re-do Poussin over again according to nature’. Comparing the two painters, Richard Verdi has written that Pouss...

Malcolm Yorke’s The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and Their Times (1988) discusses the art of Paul Nash, John Piper, Graham Su...

In The Guardian today Andrew Motion writes about the exhibition ‘Poets in the Landscape: The Romantic Spirit in British Art’, at Pallant Ho...

The Royal Academy’s exhibition, ‘The Unknown Monet’ , generally avoids oil paintings and focuses on pastels and drawings, which form a small...

The latest The New York Review has an article on the friendship between Coleridge and Wordsworth. You might think this would be a worthy ...

Some recent newspapers have had big features on Andy Goldsworthy, coinciding with his new retrospective at Yorkshire Sculpture Park . They...

Hieronymous Bosch, The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c1500. Source: Wikimedia Commons I remember once visiting the Musées royaux de...

A 1991 edition of the poetry magazine The North included a plea from Stanley Cook for the return of the prospect poem: ‘The writing of pro...

Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne is a cultural landmark in the development of English attitudes to nature, but it is...

Charles Baudelaire’s reviews of the Salons of 1845 and 1846 both have sections on landscape. In the 1845 review Baudelaire defends Corot ...

In their survey The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800 , Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom trace developments in the art of the bo...

Einojuhani Rautavaara 's Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for birds and orchestra (1972) opens with a movement entitled Suo (The Marsh) , in w...

I'm rather busy at the moment (having this week become a father for the second time) so here's just a brief landscape thought to pon...

To Tate Modern last night for a talk by Dan Graham. He mainly discussed his various pavilions and architectural structures, including recent...

My copy of the New York Review of Books arrived today and I whiled away a dismal bus journey reading an article about James Laughlin, whose ...

The British Museum has an exhibition of Georg Gerster's aerial photographs of historical sites, The Past From Above . The images that s...

Environmental sound artist Philip Blackburn has an interesting website called Music and Nature featuring various soundclips and interview...