The word ‘translation’ is not used lightly here. This is not an anthology of creative pieces by a variety of artists from different media ‘inspired by’ or ‘expressing a kinship with’ Crome’s paintings. These are translations in the sense of transformations into new languages, where the transformations and juxtapositions are designed both to incorporate the perceptual and existential responses of the ‘translator’ to examples of Crome’s work and to project those works into possible cross-medial futures. The book is as much about ‘looking’ across media, as about John Crome. What kinds of transformation do the landscapes and plant studies of John Crome (1768–1821), once considered the equal of J.M.W. Turner, undergo when translated into other ‘languages’ or media? The twenty contributors to this volume, from fields as diverse as travel-writing, poetry, painting, photography and ceramics, provide a range of answers, and in so doing, uncover new futures for Crome’s work.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures — 7   The Editors — 11 Acknowledgements — 13 Note on the Text — 17 List of Contributors — 19 John Crome (1768 –1821): A Biographical Sketch - Esther Morgan: The Drawing Master — 27 - Andrew Moore: John Crome — 28 Introduction: Andrew Moore & Clive Scott — 33 Section 1 Writing the Visual - Andrew Moore: The Art of Crome’s Landscape: ‘Breath must be attended to’ — 47 - Clive Scott: The Art of Translation: Projecting Crome — 61  Section 2 Imagining the Landscape - Georg Simmel — 77 - John Berger — 79 - Richard Mabey — 81 - Gerry Barnes & Tom Williamson — 83 - Virginia Woolf — 85 - Oliver Rackham — 87 - Neil MacMaster — 89 - Jacques Rancière — 91 - Malcolm Andrews — 93 - Elizabeth Helsinger — 95 - Edmund Bartell — 97 - Frances Milton Trollope — 99 Section 3: Optically Re-Situating Crome - Clive Scott: The Complexities of Looking — 103 - Rose Miller: A Conservator’s View — 117  - Nick Stone: A Sense of Place — 123  Section 4 Inhabiting the Land - John Craske — 129  - Richard Long — 135  - Tacita Dean — 141  - Tor Falcon — 145  - Anya Gallaccio — 151  - Chloe Steele — 157  - Katie Spragg — 161  - Daniel & Clara — 167  Section 5  - Revisualizing the Visual Tim Dee — 175  - Esther Morgan — 183  - George Szirtes — 193  - Anna Reckin — 199  - Edward Parnell — 207  - Kit Young — 213  - Mark Edwards — 221  - Lawrence Sail — 227  - Jacques Nimki — 233  - Simon Carter — 237  Select Bibliography — 245