Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson A Humument – as Phillips

A Humument – as Phillips titled his altered book – quickly established itself as a cult classic

wondrously illustrated with his own beautiful watercolour diagrams as well as Allan Brown’s computer-drawn figures that clearly and precisely

first published in 1968

professional or educational

Spirit of Place (Signed Copy) author-rob-thompson A Humument – as PhillipsWhen we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in and affected by art and literature? British landscape painting is often said to be an invention of the eighteenth century. Yet