some LANDSCAPES

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Nichiren going into exile on the island of Sado , 1835-6 Exile has been a spur to some of the greatest literature: w...

I did a post here back in 2010 about Trevor Paglen, the artist-geographer who has explored the 'black world' of US military and ...

This week I thought I would highlight a website called Landscape Music and the associated Landscape Music Composers Network .  They are...

Henri Le Sidaner, The Quay: View of the Quai Long in Bruges , 1898 Source: Wikimedia Commons When landscape reflects the emotions of ...

I have not yet read any obituaries in the national media for David Blackburn, whose passing was reported last month in the Huddersfield E...

I read in the New York Review recently of another new translation of Murasaki's The Tale of Genji and recalled that it is not that l...

The building work I mentioned a fortnight ago is well underway, covering everything in layers of dirt from crumbling Victorian bricks so tha...

  Lars Hertervig, Borgøya Island , 1867 Yesterday I watched the first of Andrew Graham-Dixon's new three-part series on Scandin...

Francesco Gonin, View of Lake Como , 1840  (illustration for chapter 1 of Alessandro Manzoni's I Promessi Sposi )    'Tha...

Nicholas Poussin, Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun , 1658 I write this surrounded by piles of books with a couple of pictures p...

I have often written here about music inspired by landscape, but the Song of the Forests is an oratorio dedicated to the reshaping of l...

Reading the new translations of Walter Benjamin's radio broadcasts, made between 1929 and 1932, you are aware of how quickly the wor...

 Ambrosius Holbein, The Island of Utopia , 1516 2016 marks the five hundredth anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia.  The book has li...

Ian Nairn once described the view from 'decent quiet Duquesne Heights onto the roaring heart of Pittsburgh' as the epitome of terrib...

Joseph Wright of Derby, Antigonus in the Storm , 1790-2 On Tuesday we went to see The Winter's Tale at the atmospheric, candlelit...

In an earlier post , 'Clouds over the Xiao and Xiang Rivers', I discussed landscape imagery in Song dynasty music for the qin (Wade...

The Regional Book by David Matless was reviewed back in October by Ken Worpole on his New English Landscape blog.  He summarises it as ...

   Francis Towne, A Ruin on the Road to the Ponte Nomentana , 1780   Yesterday I visited the British Museum for Light, time, legacy: Fr...