some LANDSCAPES

Paul Bril, Self-Portrait , c1595-1600 Source for images: Wikimedia Commons Edward Norgate's Miniatura; or The Art of Limning , com...

'And how can it be,' asked Georges Bataille, 'that a landscape, formed of interrelated appearances without any meaning, can, acc...

Bada Shanren, Fish and rocks , 1696 Source: Wikimedia Commons In Meer der Tusche (2005), Swiss writer Richard Weihe tells in 51 sho...

 Frederik de Moucheron, Mountain Scene with Herd of Cattle , second half of the 17th century In the course of one of those long conver...

I mentioned Edward Chell 's art of the motorway verges in an earlier post on Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts' book Edgel...

Last Saturday The Independent had an 'In the Studio' feature on Scottish environmental artist Elizabeth Ogilvie and found her...

If we associate landscape with slow cinema it is partly because we are used to seeing scenery framed statically, like a photograph, focusing...

John Akomfrah's film Th e Nine Muses (2010) is a poetic essay film on the immigrant experience, based on archival documentary footag...

I was hoping to interest the family in a trip to Epping Forest today for a bit of new year Shinrin-yoku (restorative 'forest bathing...

Paul Nash, The Rye Marshes (1932) as a Shell Poster Source: Wikimedia Commons A pretty miserable rainy day so we went this afternoon...

'Autumn Landscape' A sample page from Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương   made available on translator John Bala...

James McNeill Whistler, Sketch of Anacapa Island , 1854 Source: US National Archives It could be said that we owe those vivid etching...

The hard sand breaks, And the grains of it Are clear as wine. Far off over the leagues of it, The wind,         Playing on the wide ...

Among the Convolutes of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project ( translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin MacLoughlin), one section is devote...

This is my annual post on landscape music - the earlier ones (with apologies for a few dead links now) are here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 .  I d...

Last week I visited the Architectural Association Gallery in London, where there is an exhibition devoted to the British Exploratory Lan...

This week Ken Worpole was talking at the LRB bookshop about his latest collaboration with photographer Jason Orton, The New English Lands...