Artists Making Landscapes in Post-war Britain

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post—war period

In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post—war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers—many of them women—Garlake expands the conventional view of the genre to include both rural and urban subjects. In doing so, she brilliantly places the work within the context of physical changes wrought by postwar soc...