RLA: Nikolaus Pevsner: The Englishness of English Art 6 1955




Reith Lectures Archive: 1948-1975 show

Summary: The art and architecture historian Nikolaus Pevsner examines the sudden flowering of English landscape painting in the late 18th century in the sixth lecture in his Reith Lectures series 'The Englishness of English Art'. He argues that this concentration was a direct result of the temperate English climate.