Description

This new book offers a single, encompassing view of the development of landscape painting, photography, and land art in Britain from the eighteenth through to the late twentieth century. It reveals the strong continuity between British landscape art of today and that of over 250 years ago, with works by J.M.W. Turner, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, John Piper, David Nash, and Richard Long, amongst many others.

Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.

Oliver Fairclough is Keeper of Art, National Museum of Wales.