some LANDSCAPES

In Howard's End (1910) E.M. Forster exemplifies some pretentious conversation which a hundred years earlier might have included reflec...

The photograph I have behind the title of this blog was taken at Maiden Castle in Dorset. The path through the grass reminded me of Richard...

'Black Sea' , released this autumn, was the first new Fennesz album since 'Venice' (2004). As can be seen here, it has a ty...

The latest New York Review has an article about Siena by Ingrid Rowland which begins with a description of its landscape. 'Unlike i...

Drifting clouds Dry weather A Day in the Woods September Night Drifting Snow Fire of Frost Winter Morning One Flower This is a list (admitte...

I have quoted here before Robert Burton's description of the way a good prospect will ease melancholy, but for those without such a ...

I've recently been reading to my son Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , with its chocolate waterfall and minty grass, and so was tempte...

Still on the subject of Land Art , discussed in the last posting, I thought it was interesting that Ben Tufnell divided environmental art in...

Looking at some of Cildo Meireles' Arte Física (Physical Art) from 1969-70 at Tate Modern on Saturday I was reminded of the early manif...

In his memoir Father and Son (1907), Edmund Gosse described the effect of collectors, many inspired by his father's bestseller The ...

The New Arcadian Press aims 'to generate a continuous programme of artistic, scholarly and poetic research into cultural landscape....

One thing that connects the last two postings here is that Jacquetta Hawkes quotes 'The Ruin' in her book. Another rather more tenu...

Jacquetta Hawkes' A Land can be seen as one manifestation of the widespread interest in Britain's landscape pursued by artists, com...

Earlier this week Mrs Plinius had a well earned rest from some intense work issues and traveled to Bath to take the waters. Her trip remind...

Essex... 'This is a bulwark shore, creating an architecture of sea-walls, lighthouses, forts, tidal defences, gun-emplacements, airfield...

Forty years ago the Dwan Gallery Earthworks show had two more days to run in New York and you could see the works of Smithson, Heizer, De M...

Coach House Books have published a new edition of Christian Bök's Crystallography . Among its crystalline poems the book includes a ...

There is an interesting Flashpoint article by Mark Scroggins on 'The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Modernist Fragment, and...

To the NFT last night for a showing of the Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet film Itinéraire de Jean Bricard. I'm going to be lazy ...

One of the ways landscape art may evolve in the future is in the development of actual sites by artists, not simply for aesthetic purposes, ...