some LANDSCAPES

Source: Abebooks I was heartened on the Underground the other day to see a Gary Snyder poem in the carriage among the adverts: ...

Caspar David Friedrich, Monk by the Sea , 1809 Source: Wikimedia Commons Robert Rosenblum’s book Modern Painting and the Northern Ro...

According to Fiona Bradley, when Andreas Gursky 'photographed the scene that became Klausen Pass (1984), he did not notice the people sc...

"The works of Caspar David Friedrich, hitherto almost totally unknown in this country, will be a revelation for the British Art public....

It was exactly five years ago today that millions of us marched through London to protest about the impending war on Iraq. One of my abidin...

In The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950 , Robert Wohl describes how writers experiencing flight for the...

I was recently flicking through Kenneth Baker's anthology The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry (2000), which, as you would expect from th...

Publisher and poet Jonathan Williams has often written about music. There is A Celestial Centennial Reverie for Charles Edward Ives , for...

It is interesting to consider how far you can get from a direct representation of a landscape and still provide a space that can elicit som...

How does inscape relate to landscape?  For Gerard Manley Hopkins, inscape was that which gives something its own special identity.  We co...

Before photographs could be taken from aeroplanes, aerial landscapes had to be captured by other means: The first aerial photogr...

Peter Doig is coming to Tate Britain for a talk next month. I was told the tickets all went within 30 minutes of going on sale, so sadly I ...

Earth Shattering: Eco Poems is the latest anthology from Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley, following recent successes like Staying Alive , ...

The final entry in the war diary of landscape poet Edward Thomas is dated 8 April 1917 – he was killed the next day at 7.36 am by a shell bl...

This is Lagos (2002) by Olu Amoda - welded scrap steel. One of my New Year's resolutions is to include a few more images in 'So...

I have mentioned the Southern Song landscape painter Ma Yuan here before in connection with a Wallace Stevens poem. I’ve just been readin...

An alternative to soundwalks is to stay in one place and record the sounds heard over a period of time. Or, one could enumerate things seen...

Writing the last entry made me dig out the excellent survey of acoustic ecology in The Wire 226 , which describes the original World Soundsc...

I've been listening to the environmental recordings compiled on a CD for Uovo 14 by David Toop . In his notes, Toop says that the ori...

Last night some friends were showing me photographs of Bonneville Salt Flats. I immediately dredged from childhood memory the name of Gary ...