'Tate Etc', Summer 2005 issue, and Mike Marshall

[Helen B]

I was browsing through some photo mags last night* when my eye was caught by a copy of ‘Tate etc’. The cover mentioned British landscape and Wim Wenders so I just had to check it out, then buy it, despite my antipathy towards the Tate because of its status as the headquarters of the London Art Mafia: Mainstream Chapter. (If any members of the LAM are reading this, I don’t mean any personal criticism, honest.)

No surprise that the articles on the representation of the landscape of Britain kept a fairly clean nose and avoided any disturbing, controversial notions. Still, I enjoyed reading them. There are short essays by Wim Wenders on John Crome's Moonrise on the Yare (c. 1811 to 1816) and Thomas Joshua Cooper on William Daniell's In Fingal's Cave, Staffa (1814 to 1825), and a longer article on contemporary ideas of landscape by Martin Herbert. Some of the work of Mike Marshall is shown. I hadn’t seen his work before, but what was in the magazine and on the web interested me.

Artnews page on Mike Marshall

Mike Marshall's page at the Union Gallery site

Tate article by Martin Herbert

So, if those articles are your sort of thing you might like to check it out. No need to buy it, thanks to the web.

Best,
Helen

*in the Barnes and Noble at Astor Place, Manhattan, as if it matters.