Malcolm Andrews is Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies at the University of Kent. He is the author of
Dickens on England and the English, The Search for the Picturesque, and Dickens and the Grown-up Child. He has
edited a three-volume anthology, The Picturesque: Sources and Documents and is currently editor of the journal
The Dickensian.
Summary
A beautifully-illustrated look at 500 years of one of the most popular genres in art
What is landscape? How does it differ from "land"? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured,
a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature"? Is it everything that
isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad
ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance.
Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes
art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the fascinating and challenging issues of landscape
as art. The books broad sweep covers the full, rich spectrum of landscape art, including painting, gardening, panorama,
poetry, photography, and art. Artistic issues are investigated in connection with Western cultural movements, and
within a full international and historical context.
Clear explanations and beautiful illustrations convey to the reader the idea of landscape as an experience
in which everyone is creatively involved. It is an enlightening and comprehensive critical overview of landscape
art.
Covers 500 years of one of the most popular genres in art
Provides a comprehensive critical overview of the subject
Beautifully-illustrated with a wide range of different examples of landscape art
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Land into Landscape
2. Landscape and Terza Natura
3. Subject or Setting? Landscape in C15 and C16 Painting
4. Topography and the Beau Ideal
5. Framing the View
6. The Sublime
7. Political Landscape
8. Nature as Picture or Process?
9. Landscape and the Art Gallery
Notes
List of Illustrations
Bibliographic Essay
Timeline
Index
