Landskipping - Painters, Ploughmen and Places (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2017
Authors:	Anna Pavord
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-4088-6893-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4088-6893-8
Barcode:	9781408868935

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