ESPITE ITS development as a place of innovation, Cambridge maintains a rural feel with cattle grazing lush pastures beside the flowing Cam still. The Fitzwilliam Museum looks out across the Peterhouse deer park to observe this timeless pastoral scene on Coe Fen. Yet in the museum itself, change is happening and old ways are being challenged. In March reported the institution’s growing concern regarding the effect that some of its famous British landscape paintings may be having on visitors. British landscapes can evoke ‘dark nationalist’ feelings, new
Uncancelling the countryside
Apr 18, 2024
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