some LANDSCAPES

For my last post of the decade I'm going to discuss some words of the writer who provided my nom de blog , 'Plinius'.  In his Na...

Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting at the Hayward is a good exhibition, but a depressing experience for any believer in the inspirational p...

Probably too late now to ask for these for Christmas: the new limited edition LPs of Richard Skelton's Landings ... The latest Wire mag...

Almost all you will learn about the poet Wang Bo (called Wang Po in the Wade-Giles system) from the brief stub on Wikipedia is that he was ...

Much has been written this autumn about Van Gogh's letters, following publication of the vast new six-volume collected edition .  Among ...

In what ways can landscape archaeology be considered a form of landscape art?  Matthew Johnson's Ideas of Landscape (2007) traces the...

The latest New York Review has arrived and it includes a critical article on Jane Campion's film Bright Star by Christopher Ricks.  Th...

I've been in Liverpool this week and managed to squeeze in a trip to the Walker Art Gallery.  I think my favourite painting in their col...

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...