A ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its
potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. Landskipping explores the
different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the
land, beginning in the eighteenth century when artists first started to
paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to
attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Meanwhile, at the
same time, an entirely different band of people, the agricultural
improvers, also travelled the land, looking at it in terms of its
usefulness as well as its beauty.
What emerges as universal then
and now is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience.
Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish
Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written by Anna
Pavord with zest, passion and deep understanding.
Landskipping : Painters, Ploughmen and Places - Anna Pavord
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