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A Picture of Britain Paperback – Illustrated, 12 May 2005

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The number one best-seller accompanying the major BBC One series. David Dimbleby explores the connection between the way we see the British landscape and the way it was seen throught the eyes of artists.

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Tate Publishing
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12 May 2005
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1854375660
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978-1854375667
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"Beautifully done, with lots of colour reproductions, and a highly readable text." -- Times Literary Supplement, July 2005

"Sumptuously illustrated" -- The Spectator, July 2005

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David Dimbleby is a writer and broadcaster.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tate Publishing; 1st edition (12 May 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1854375660
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1854375667

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- 2,941 in Museums & Art Collections

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"In our crowded islands, landscape has become a luxury." Thus does David Dimbleby write in the opening words to this companion volume, a companion not only to the well-received TV series, but also to the exhibition held at the Tate in 2005. And it is to the latter that this volume is mainly addressed, because, although David Dimbleby has his name on the book's cover, his contributions to the writings in this book are to provide starters to the menu's main courses. Those main courses are written by the curators at the Tate, namely David Blayney Brown, Richard Humphreys, and Christine Riding.

The first essay, `Man, Nature, & Society' is by the first in this list of authors. Brown writes how "Today we take the cult of landscape, and landscape art for granted ... We forget how adventurous it was ..." This interesting essay draws in the origins of landscape art, the interaction between the picturesque and the sublime, the Lakeland poets, Ruskin, and the alienation sometimes felt between the rural and the urban. "Surely", he writes, "the depiction and understanding of our landscape have not yet reached the end of their history, as our changing communities discover it afresh." Brown's other essay considers `The Nature of Our Looking'. He refers to Constable's `The Hay Wain' as epitomising in many people's eyes the very `Picture of Britain', and yet "east Anglia was a land apart, neither on the map of the `Picturesque tour', nor thought to have any pictorial potential."

Christine Riding's essay `War & Peace' unfortunately contains two errors on the first two pages: one might forgive her repeating that hoary old chestnut about the country not being successfully invaded since 1066, but the Battle of the Nile was most definitely not in the year 1795. Yet the essay is not without interest. In her contemplation of Englishness and the rural idyll, she writes how "by the mid-nineteenth century there was a commonly held assumption that landscape and coastal scenes were imbued with significance that went far beyond the representation of a specific location ..." Riding also looks at war in the air, "the most original and challenging [of] landscapes." Riding's other essay explores the processes that made the Highlands synonymous with Scotland as a whole with a romantic nostalgia for a faded independence.

Richard Humphreys begins his essay on `Paradise and Pandemonium' by questioning Michael Drayton's poetic definition of the heart of England, where "now [1622] the industrious muse doth fall." Are not the pastoral landscapes of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire also in the heart of England? But paradise quickly led to pandemonium as the pace of industrialisation quickened. Humphreys makes effective use of examples from the poetry of the period to argue his case. Humphreys has the last essay in this book, `Myths and Megaliths'. Ley-lines, megalithic ruins, and the pagan past are the centre of these landscapes, exemplified mostly by sites in Wales and the West.

All these essays, of course, barely scratch the surface of the wealth of landscape art in this country. The book is generously littered with countless representations of examples quoted in the text, and at the end there is a full list of these works and where they can be seen.

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Excellent for anyone interested in Landscape art,well delivered by Mr.Dimbleby.Certainly worth it.

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Im English from the West Midlands and I truly love this CD. I learnt so much about my home area and beyond of course I absolutely love this picture of aBritian I knew very little about- In Wolverhampton we have a hidden painter of the Black Country!

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