Reviewed by Henry Malt
Landscape Painting Now - from Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
This substantial volume provides an album of contemporary landscape painting in almost every style. Divided into six main sections, it moves from realism and postpop to constructed realities and abstracted topographies. I described this as an album because, apart from the short introductory essays and artist biographies, there is no particular narrative or apparatus of critical interpretation. That is no bad thing, as the reader is left to get on with it and draw their own conclusions. The sheer volume and quality of the illustrations will give you plenty to get your teeth into, as well as introducing names which may not be familiar.