TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owens, Susan 
TI  - Spirit of Place
SN  - 9780500252307
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Thames & Hudson
KW  - Animals in at
KW  - Art
KW  - British and Irish history
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Landscape art
KW  - Nature in art
KW  - Social history
N1  - English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way up to the present day. In Spirit of Place, Susan Owens illuminates how the British landscape has been framed, reimagined, and reshaped by generations of creative thinkers. To offer a panoramic view of the countryside throughout history, Owens dives into the work of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain Poet to Thomas Gainsborough, Jane Austen, J. M. W. Turner, and John Constable, and from Paul Nash and Barbara Hepworth to Robert Macfarlane. Richly illustrated, including manuscript pages, early maps, paintings, film stills, and photographs, Spirit of Place is a compelling narrative of how we have been shown the British landscape
ER  -