BA (hons) Fine Art

I have tried to find books on contemporary landscape painting and came across a few but not many. This is strange. There are lots of good books on the work of individual landscape artists but not, it seems to me, much on contemporary landscape painting as a branch of Fine Art. Why is this? I read Malcolm Andrews book Landscape and Western Art and it gives a brilliant account of early uses of landscape on into the Romantic period, the Sublime and the Modern period. Then after a nod to Anselm Kiefer’s Markische Sand the book moves on to the solid ground (pun intended) of Land Art. Now, there is a bit of a void here. There are lots of contemporary landscape artists producing work in different styles and offering different motivations and explanations of their practise. They are visible individually but not en masse. Strange times.