Clark, Kenneth Mackenzie - Derek Hill (review date 4 November 1949)
Derek Hill (review date 4 November 1949)
SOURCE: Hill, Derek. “Whither Landscape Painting?” Spectator 183 (4 November 1949): 610-12.
[In the following review, Hill praises Clark's reflections and ideas, as well as his ability to describe landscape paintings with simple terms in Landscape into Art.]
A critical approach to any particular facet of painting that takes in solely the aesthetic considerations, whilst omitting the philosophical ideas that go to its formation, is not only difficult but at the same time worthless. The lectures given by the Slade Professor to Oxford University on landscape painting, that are now edited in book form, are as much concerned with the strata of thought that go to form the various schools of landscape as they are with the actual flowering to be found on the surface. The question around which these lectures have been written is what type of landscape art, if any, has been motivated at a given period by...
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