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Editorial One particular e nglish landscape has been much in the news recently, that of the eastY orkshire Wolds, the principal subject of d avid Hockney’s A Bigger Picture exhibition at the Royal a cademy. This shows 180 of the landscape paintings the Bridlington-based artist has produced over the last decade or so, often revisiting particular places on the Wolds over many years to capture them in different seasons, lights and colours, and sometimes on an heroic, multi-canvassed, scale. This is a part of e ngland one of the editors knows well from long and deep experience, one of rolling mounded arable uplands cut through with steep, V-sided, grassy valleys, or dales as they are there known. It is an apparently lightly populated area: on the Wold-top the only houses are the large brick farmsteads of the Georgian improvers, generally hidden behind their tall windbreak-plantations; villages normally huddle in the dales, out of the wind, invisible from the high ground. andwhile the visible components of the landscape – the farms, the large grid-pattern e fi lds, the straight roads switch- backing up and down – are largely Georgian, here and there are reminders of much older societies: deserted medieval settlements http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Editorial

Stamper, Paul; Fairclough, Graham
Landscapes , Volume 12 (2): 1 – Dec 1, 2011
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2011 Maney Publishing
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2040-8153
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10.1179/lan.2011.12.2.vii
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One particular e nglish landscape has been much in the news recently, that of the eastY orkshire Wolds, the principal subject of d avid Hockney’s A Bigger Picture exhibition at the Royal a cademy. This shows 180 of the landscape paintings the Bridlington-based artist has produced over the last decade or so, often revisiting particular places on the Wolds over many years to capture them in different seasons, lights and colours, and sometimes on an heroic, multi-canvassed, scale. This is a part of e ngland one of the editors knows well from long and deep experience, one of rolling mounded arable uplands cut through with steep, V-sided, grassy valleys, or dales as they are there known. It is an apparently lightly populated area: on the Wold-top the only houses are the large brick farmsteads of the Georgian improvers, generally hidden behind their tall windbreak-plantations; villages normally huddle in the dales, out of the wind, invisible from the high ground. andwhile the visible components of the landscape – the farms, the large grid-pattern e fi lds, the straight roads switch- backing up and down – are largely Georgian, here and there are reminders of much older societies: deserted medieval settlements

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Published: Dec 1, 2011

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