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The New Arcadian Journal

“The feisty, visually distinctive and intellectually robust New Arcadian Journal … is refreshingly original” (TLS). “The New Arcadian Journals have been teaching us pleasantly provocative lessons for many years” (Country Life). The NAJ is the unique fine press book that combines art and scholarship. It is a treasury of drawing as artists join writers to explore the landscape garden. In particular, the NAJ:-

  • Investigates the cultural politics of historical landscapes through engaging with the vestigial presences of architecture, gardens, monuments, sculpture and inscriptions.
  • Explores the resonance of garden works by contemporary artists such as Derek Jarman and James Pierce, and especially Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little Sparta and elsewhere.
  • Revels in the poetics of place and the breezy terrain of the upland walker.

Current edition: NAJ 79/80 (2024), The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle, 3rd edition. See below for six other publications relating to the Yorkshire Wentworths. 

The penultimate edition, NAJ 81/82, Virtuous Landscapes, is in preparation. It will mark the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006, and include the proposals for both the cancelled Parisian gardens. These were commissioned by the French government to commemorate the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. They were cancelled in 1988 following a smear campaign against Finlay waged in the media by elements within the Parisian art world.

This website is the most economic place to collect New Arcadian Journals and other publications from the New Arcadian Press. NB. NAJs are discounted at book fairs.

   

Still available / Other publications

Lectures/Articles by Dr Patrick Eyres: radio, youtube, websites

In Memoriam

Grahame Jones, 1952-2020, Ian Gardner, 1944-2019, Chris Broughton, 1949-2015. 

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