some LANDSCAPES

Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten Source: Wikimedia Commons Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten is not, I think it's safe to say, a well known ...

In what conceivable way could Raphael's Sistine Madonna , in Dresden's Gemäldegalerie, be considered a landscape painting?  In 1802,...

The best landscape art book of 2009?  Possibly the new edition of Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape by Joseph Leo Koer...

The Hundred Thousand Places was another purchase at the Small Publishers Fair.  It begins in the morning at the start of a walk, by the...

Today I went to the Small Publishers Fair , an annual event which I based posts on last year and the year before . Among today's purch...

Slavko Vorkapich's contribution to cinema has been described by Philip Kemp in a Film Reference article : 'to today's audiences...

There used to be several good secondhand bookshops in Brighton's Duke Street, and in one of them about twenty years ago I bought Geof...

One of the ways we can view artists as having affected the physical landscape before the advent of land art is through their requirement for...

A half term trip to York this week included a look round York City Art Gallery which houses the Milner-White Collection.  Eric Milner-White...

'And sometimes, in the Venetian spring, you awake to a Canaletto day, when the whole city is alive with sparkle and sunshine, and the ...

While I've got Martin Warnke's book Political Landscape to hand (see previous post), here's an interesting quotation from the s...

"Goddess with 100ft breasts to rival Angel of the North" was how The Times reported Charles Jencks' plans for Northumberlandi...

Ni Zan, Landscape , 1372 National Museum of Taipei (Source: Wikimedia Commons )   'Trees on the riverbank, an expanse of water...

Having described the poetry of Hsieh Ling-yün last time, I now feel the need to refer to his contemporary T'ao Yüan-ming (also known as ...

Hsieh Ling-yün (Xie Lingyun) lived from 385 to 433 and initiated the shan-shui ("rivers-and-mountains") tradition in Chinese poetr...

Margaret Drabble has published a new edition of her 1979 book, 'A Writer's Britain'.  Like other books I've discussed here...

I was at the Royal Academy today for the Anish Kapoor exhibition which has received quite a lot of media coverage.  The kind of mirrored scu...

Another good source for free access soundscape recordings: the British Library Sound Archive .  They have various atmospheric recordings of ...

My previous post described Peter Cusack's recordings of the sounds of nature at Chernobyl.  Jacob Kirkegaard's Four Rooms project, ...

Gruenrekorder's Autumn Leaves is a really good survey of current work in environmental soundscape composition and it can all be dowlo...