Places of the Mind (British Museum)
Sloan, Kim / Feather, Jessica / Gruetzner Robins, Anna / Smiles, Sam / Carey, Frances
A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of a landscape but also its emotional and spiritual impact ¿ landscape as `places of the mind¿, as the critic Geoffrey Grigson put it ¿ is the focus of this fascinating new study of British watercolours produced between 1850 and 1950. Drawing on the Brit...