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15/10/2002

reViewing Landscape

Artandphotographs gallery, London

Photographs of Contemporary England

The term 'landscape' is a cultural and historical construct, a notion of the natural defined by man's relationship to his environment, his activity in it and most pertinently his view of it. The English landscape, on this small and densely populated island, is the product of the interaction of man and the natural world. Formed over hundreds of years, it has been created by us in a very real material way as well as in any visual or conceptual sense.

In an aesthetic context, the English landscape tradition as artistic genre is loaded with 18th Century ideas of the picturesque, the harmonious pastoral, Wordsworthian romanticism and Ruskin's moral naturalism and it's reverence for domesticated vistas of trees, lakes and country paths. Yet the England of today offers a very different social and visual reality from the picture postcard of a quintessential 'green and pleasant land'.

These photographers have explored and interpreted this contemporary landscape and suggest a range of approaches both visual and emotional in their re-viewing: from the suburban to the rural, from the formal to the intimate, from the agricultural to the industrial.

Works by: Andrew Cross, Paul Cunningham, David Hughes, Pete Massingham, Tom Merilion, Nigel Shafran, Howard Sooley, Jem Southam, Lou Spence, David Spero

For more information and images please contact Sophie Wright at artandphotographs on 020 7321 0495 or at artandphotographspress@btinternet.com

Private view: 6-8pm, Wednesday 16 October

Open Tues-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-2

Next exhibition:
Peter Henry Emerson
Platinum prints and photogravures
20 November 2002 ­ end January 2003

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