Unknown Scotland in Colour

Photographs by Dennis Hardley.

Scotland is a country remarkably little known even to Scotsmen. With the seeing eye of an artist Dennis Hardley has here recorded a Scotland which is unfamiliar, sometimes because the places are themselves strange, sometimes because the viewpoint and lighting give freshness to themes otherwise near to cliché. Edinburgh, for instance, is seen not in the customary Princes-Street view, but in the melodramatic light of a scarlet sunset; Mull appears in terms of a miraculously frozen waterfall; Glencoe is recorded, not in its usual lowering aspect, but as the location of a pastoral sheep-farming scene; the Trossachs are the setting for some distant dinghies racing on Loch Ard; the Cuillins are viewed across the sands of Loch Slapin on Skye; while Dunottar Castle is dimly outlined in swirling mist. These are just a few of the subjects which together epitomise a different and more genuine Scotland than that which the conventional calendar subjects generally convey.

That the illustrations have been chosen logically, and not merely for their outstanding quality as pictures, is made clear by the textual narrative in which Maurice Lindsay has set them. Here they are seen to exemplify in the most illuminating way the lochs and glens, the fishing villages and the ancient towns, the medieval castles and the Georgian country houses, the Highlands and the Islands which together make up the true, if too often the unfamiliar Scotland.

Dennis Hardley, the photographer, lives at Connel in Argyllshire, while Maurice Lindsay, who is the Director of the Scottish Civic Trust, is a Glaswegian.

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Autore/i Maurice Lindsay
Editore B.T. Batsford Ltd Luogo London
Anno 1984 Pagine 96
Dimensioni 22x30 (cm) Illustrazioni ill. colori n.t. - colors ills
Legatura tela ed. sovracc. ill. colori - hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione Usato buone condizioni - used good
Lingua Italiano - Italian text Peso 1000 (gr)
ISBN 071341586X EAN-13 9780713415865