{"id":2894,"date":"2013-11-19T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2013-11-19T22:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T22:13:04","slug":"the-new-english-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/19\/the-new-english-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"The New English Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>For nearly a decade Jason Orton and Ken Worpole have collaborated  on documenting the changing landscape and coastline of Essex,  particularly its estuaries, islands and urban edgelands. They continue to  explore many aspects of contemporary landscape topography and  architecture. They have just released a new book  called The New English Landscape.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>The New English Landscape<\/em><\/strong><em> critically examines the changing geography of landscape aesthetics since  the Second World War, noting the shift away from the arcadian interior  to the contested eastern shoreline.\u00c2\u00a0 It discusses how writers and  artists gravitated towards East Anglia, and latterly towards Essex,  regarding them as sites of significant topographical disruption, often  as a result of military or industrial occupation.<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>These are landscapes of unique  ecological and imaginative resonance, particularly following the Thames,  and the islands and estuaries of its northerly coastal peninsula. The  book assesses the past, present and future of this new territorial  aesthetic, now subject to much debate in the contested\u00c2\u00a0 worlds of  landscape design, topography and psycho-geography.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The book contains 22 colour photographs, an 18,000 word essay,  extensive bibliography, maps, and is a medium-to-large format paperback.<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-0-9926669-0-3<\/p>\n<p>Price \u00c2\u00a315.00<\/p>\n<p>Ways to buy<strong> The New English Landscape <\/strong>can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewenglishlandscape.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly a decade Jason Orton and Ken Worpole have collaborated on documenting the changing landscape and coastline of Essex, particularly its estuaries, islands and urban edgelands. They continue to explore many aspects of contemporary landscape topography and architecture. They have just released a new book called The New English Landscape. The New English Landscape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2899,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}