some LANDSCAPES

Coming to the end of the year, I find myself thinking about this blog.  Whilst I still enjoy writing here, I think I will keep posts short a...

A detail from Hanging Gardens of Rock City (1970) by Liliane Lijn In the British Museum at the moment you can see Hanging Gardens of R...

I was at the White Cube on Sunday to see the latest batch of Anselm Kiefer paintings, Superstrings, Runes, The Norns, Gordian Knot .  I...

This cool poster gives a strong impression of 'Troubled Waters', an alternative title for Mauritz Stiller's Johan .  The film...

I am looking forward to reading Experiments on Reality , a new collection of essays by Tim Robinson.  Googling him this weekend and look...

Last month we visited the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte, just outside Paris.  It was the home of Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's finance ...

Two years ago I wrote here about the plans-reliefs that Andrew Graham-Dixon visited for a TV documentary - he described them as 'a c...

Gerald Bullett (1893-1958) is perhaps not very well known today, but he was a fairly prolific writer and according to Wikipedia (quoting ...

Last week I discussed here the way artists over the centuries have depicted Korea's Diamond Mountains, but these extraordinary peaks ar...

Jeong Seon, General View of Mt. Geumgang , 1734 Source: Wikimedia Commons In these days of mass global travel it feels as if everywhe...

‘The only way one can understand landscape is through time.’ - James Benning This is a still from TEN SKIES (2004) a film by James Be...

I’ve been looking through a library copy of The Art of the Hollywood Backdrop , a huge, glossy and expensive book based on material in th...

I have put together a new timeline of landscape and the arts based on entries in this blog.  It covers five hundred people, ranging in ti...

Guo Xi, Early Spring , 1072 In 1072 the Chinese artist Guo Xi completed one of the most celebrated landscape paintings, Early Spring ....

Reading the exiled Ovid's Tristia and Black Sea Letters you keep wanting him to tell his correspondents back in Rome about the landscape...

I have just read All Among the Barley , the third novel by Melissa Harrison, whose writings and nature observations I've been follow...

The other day I pulled out from my library the anthology Poems of Arab Andalusia that City Lights Books published back in 1989.  The transl...

German soldiers in 1944, posing with a picture by Giovanni Paolo Panini taken from Naples Source: Wikimedia Commons We have just retu...