some LANDSCAPES

  View of Árainn Mhór from Inis Meáin Yesterday we sat on a cliff on the Aran Island of Inis Meáin, looking out over a perfect blue se...

Work took me to Durham yesterday and gave me the opportunity to see the Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition .  I was surprised that the curat...

  Winds, Woods, Mountains, Lakes, Islands, Plains and Streams: each are addressed in turn in W. H. Auden's 'Bucolics' (1953)...

The first description of a landscape photograph was written in 1760, almost eighty years before the invention of photography.  In Giphant...

Robert Macfarlane recently wrote an appreciation of M. John Harrison that made me want to seek out his novel Climbers when I have more time...

'For truly art is embedded in nature, and he who can extract it, has it.' - Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer, Willow Mill...

Outline: an autobiography and other writings was published three years after the death of Paul Nash, in 1949.  The autobiography was unf...

Reading this new Corbel Stone Press journal I was fascinated by a selection of short extracts from Fluss ohne Ufer (Shoreless River), a ...

Amy Cutler emerged recently from the groves of Academe where she is completing a PhD to organise ‘Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hall...

'Sligo River Blues' has always been my favourite song on John Fahey's Blind Joe Death (1959), the album which defined a new ...

"I need not tell you what terrible distress the war is causing among artists", Sir Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery...

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In October 1899 a new journal appeared in Germany called Die Insel , 'The Island' and carried four poems by an interesting new wr...

In The Guardian last week Blake Morrison wrote an appreciation of Sons and Lovers , marking the hundredth anniversary of its publication...

Alfred Jarry on his bicycle   In his essay 'Of the Futility of the 'Theatrical' in the Theatre' (1896) Alfred Jarry off...

'I have often experienced a feeling of anxiety, at crossroads.  At such moments it seems to me that here , or close by, a couple of ...

When I mentioned Xu Bing in a post here three years ago I referred to installations I could not see, in New York and Sydney, so it was a...

Among the distant ancestors of television, the eighteenth century rouleaux transparents of Louis Carrogis (known by the name of Carmont...

After the defeat of the French army and the German occupation, Francis Ponge set out, travelling by foot and bicycle, to reach the Free Z...

   Still from Ka Mountain by OpenEndedGroup In 1972 Robert Wilson and his avant-garde theatre group the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds...