Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson professional or educational

professional or educational

There’s no doubt about it: whether you’re a newbie or a dab hand

Original Purpose

first published in 1968

A Humument – as Phillips titled his altered book – quickly established itself as a cult classic

Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson professional or educationalWhen we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? British landscape painting is often said to be an invention of the eighteenth century. Yet