some LANDSCAPES

Here's something really good if you haven't already seen it: Polis Is This : Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (the fi...

Cyprien Gaillard's art seems to be getting quite a lot of attention at the moment.  I see that one of his works is included in the new ...

Arshile Gorky, One Year the Milkweed , 1944 Image added here in 2019 following expiry of copyright The Tate's impressive and movi...

'Why do we wish to see a charming landscape reproduced in a picture?  Is it just for the sake of pleasure?  No, we are hoping this image...

Apparently , 'the first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine S...

In the early seventies, Robert Ashley produced and directed a 14-hour television opera/documentary about the work and ideas of seven Ame...

Talking of William Gilpin (as I was in my previous post), I remember years ago looking in vain for his books in various second hand bookshop...

So how do you describe a landscape?  Normally by selecting the most interesting features to which the reader's attention should be drawn...

In 1772 Catherine the Great wrote to Voltaire, saying that she loved gardens in the English style: ‘the curving lines, the gentle slopes, th...

Detail of the south wall, 'Garden Room', Prima Porta Source: Wikimedia Commons In my recent post about Roman landscape painting...

August Strindberg, Coastal Landscape II , 1903 Source: Wikimedia Commons In the midst of all this snow and cold weather I feel in the...

Peter Paul Rubens, Philemon and Baucis , c1630 Source: Wikimedia Commons In 1822 William Hazlitt compared Rubens with Claude: 'I i...

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...