some LANDSCAPES

A couple of years ago the Pushkin Press published a new translation of Der Hagestolz (1850) by Adalbert Stifter (1805-68).  Their edition ...

'I know a painting so evanescent that it is seldom viewed at all, except by some wandering deer. It is a river who wields the brush, a...

Francis Alÿs, The Loop , Tijuana - San Diego 1997 Postcard given free at the exhibition Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception One of ...

Near the start of this section of Civilisation (1969) we see Kenneth Clark sitting in a rowing boat discussing the 'revolution i...

Ten years ago I went to the Hayward Gallery's Sonic Boom exhibition where one of the more memorable works, Christina Kubisch 's ...

Last year I finally finished converting all my CDs to MP3s and while going through the crates came upon some Flying Saucer Attack albums,...

There are several surveillance landscapes on show at Tate Modern at the moment - the Exposed exhibition website has some of Jonathan Olley...

Chiswick House, designed by the third Earl of Burlington,  completed by 1729  My photograph, July 2010 Last month we visited Chiswi...

Mount Lu Source: Wikimedia Commons Lu Mountain (Lu-shan or Hermitage Mountain), at the juncture of the Long River and Lake P'o-ya...

Shen Fu's memoir, Six Records of a Floating Life (1809), describes his life as an undistinguished civil servant and art enthusiast, with...

Last year Denis Dutton, editor of that useful website Arts and Letters Daily , published The Art Instinct , a book that applies evolutionar...

When Basho and Sora set off in 1689 on the Narrow Road to the Deep North , they were traveling into the past, to re-visit landscapes with lo...

The Present Order is the Disorder of the Future - Saint-Just Sculpture at Ian Hamilton Finlay's Little Sparta Source: Wikimedia ...

Henry Fuseli, who became professor of painting at the Royal Academy in 1799, famously warned his pupils off 'that kind of landscape whic...

Marcus Gheeraerts the younger, Queen Elizabeth I , c1592 Source: Wikimedia Commons   The reader of Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1...

In a post a few years ago I reprinted a short poem by Coleridge, written in 1828, of which Richard Holmes said 'this fragment of Dutch ...

There is a great tradition of poets contemplating the landscape from mountain huts.  I've talked here before about Gary Snyder 'look...

On Friday I got to see extracts from Patrick Keiller's forthcoming film, Robinson in Ruins, at the AHRC's 'Art and Environment...

'We live in a constellation / Of patches and of pitches' wrote Wallace Stevens in 'July Mountain'. This poem is the star...