Landscape into Art

First published in 1949 from Clark's Slade lectures, this study traces how landscape became an independent subject in Western painting rather than a backdrop for sacred or historical scenes. Clark follows medieval symbols of garden and wilderness, the measured prospects of the Renaissance, the northern taste for weather and working land, and the ideal landscapes of Claude and Poussin. Later chapters treat the Dutch realists, the Romantic mountain and ruin, Constable and Turner, and the dissolution of the view into Impressionist light. The argument is historical and formal: each period's landscape records a change in how nature was seen, used, and valued.

Quarter-bound in buckram with colour picture printed paper sides. Dark blue slipcase. Landscape format.