The Rainbow
Lawrence Gowing, 17 March 1983
Rubens and the Poetics of Landscape
by Lisa Vergara.
Yale, 228 pp., £29, November 1982,0 03 000250 8 Show More
by Lisa Vergara.
Yale, 228 pp., £29, November 1982,
James Ward’s Gordale Scar: An Essay in the Sublime
by Edward Nygren.
Tate Gallery, 64 pp., £2.95, November 1982,0 905005 93 7 Show More
by Edward Nygren.
Tate Gallery, 64 pp., £2.95, November 1982,
“... place to have a rainbow!’ Patrick George, a considerable Rubenist, once said to me. But Lisa Vergara’s destination is the idyllic landscapes of the last years of his life – and they no longer show ‘phenomena’ in this sense. There are no catastrophes and no perils. Instead there is the most phenomenal thing of all, the presence of nature ... ”