some LANDSCAPES

 Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colours on the Qiao and Hua Mountains , 1296 Back to normal now, for blog post number 1,001, and at this time of y...

For this, the 1000th entry on this blog, I am pleased to announce... a book . If you have liked some of what I have written here over t...

Eight poems entitled, simply, 'Landscape': 1. 'Landscape' by Robert Gray A walk over sandhills by the sea, turning inl...

Anon (once attributed to Guo Xi), Mount Emei under Heavy Snow , 17th century Mount Omei, or Emei, in Sichuan province, is one of the Fo...

J. M. W. Turner, The Great Fall of the Reichenbach, in the Valley of Hasle, Switzerland , 1804 Source: Wikimedia Commons Turner pai...

The Listener magazine, founded by John Reith as a cultural supplement to the BBC's Radio Times , folded in 1991.  I think I rememb...

   Charles-Joseph Flipart, Landscape with an architectural view surrounded by trompe-l’oeil elements symbolising the Arts , c. 1779  Im...

'For anyone who has watched with anticipation as the writings of Robert Walser (1878-1956) have slowly appeared in English over the pa...

And thou fresh breaking Day, and you, ye Mountains, Why are ye beautiful? I cannot love ye. And thou, the bright eye of the universe, ...

John Constable, Chain Pier, Brighton , 1826-7 Source: Wikimedia Commons Turner versus Constable...  You can compare the two greates...

Robert Zünd, Buchenwald , 1887 Source: Wikimedia Commons In English the word 'Buchenwald' is synonymous with horror and darkn...

Whilst it is obviously true that any landscape painting loses something in reproduction, this is especially true of a panorama.  It is no...

When it rains five days and the skies turn dark as night... I woke up early this mornin', a water hole in my back yard... Back...

The Documenta 14 catalogue is organised in a way that appeals to my fondness for chronologies - each of the 163 living artists is allotted...