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The New Arcadian Journal

“The feisty, visually distinctive and intellectually robust New Arcadian Journal … is refreshingly original” (Times Literary Supplement). “The New Arcadian Journals have been teaching us pleasantly provocative lessons for many years” (Country Life). “With their gorgeous coloured covers and unique combination of artist-illustrations and scholarly texts, the journals are unique in garden publishing” (Garden History Journal). “Particular praise must go to the artists whose line drawings ~ original, usually informative, sometimes evocative, occasionally just odd ~ help to give the volume its distinctive feel” (Follies Journal). The NAJ is the fine press book that is a treasury of drawing as artists join writers to explore the landscape garden. In particular, the NAJ:-

  • Investigates the cultural politics of historical landscapes through engaging with the vestigial presences of architecture, gardens, monuments, sculpture and inscriptions.
  • Explores the resonance of garden works by contemporary artists such as Derek Jarman and James Pierce, and especially Ian Hamilton Finlay at Little Sparta and elsewhere.
  • Revels in the poetics of place and the breezy terrain of the upland walker.

Current edition: NAJ 79/80 (2024), The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle, 3rd edition. See below for six other publications relating to the Yorkshire Wentworths. 

NAJ 81/82, Virtuous Landscapes, has reached the proofing stage. The  launch will be at Little Sparta on Sunday 28 September.  To reserve a copy, email <patrickjeyres@gmail.com>. The NAJ marks the centenary of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006, and include the illustrated proposals for both the cancelled Parisian gardens. These were commissioned by the French government to commemorate the Bicentenary of the French Revolution. They were cancelled in 1988 when the government buckled under the pressure of a smear campaign against Finlay, waged by a Parisian art media faction. This is the penultimate edition.

Forthcoming talks by Patrick Eyres:-

This website is the most economic place to collect New Arcadian Journals and other publications from the New Arcadian Press. NB. NAJs are discounted at book fairs.

   

Still available / Other publications

Lectures/Articles by Dr Patrick Eyres: radio, youtube, websites

In Memoriam

Grahame Jones, 1952-2020, Ian Gardner, 1944-2019, Chris Broughton, 1949-2015. 

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