Lines of Sight: Alfred Watkins, Photography and Topography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Daniels, Stephen
Date published
2006
Abstract
Alfred Watkins (1855–1935) originated the idea of ley-lines and surveyed alignments which articulated the prehistoric landscape of Britain, in his native Herefordshire in the 1920s. Despite the scepticism of academic archaeologists, his vision of ley-lines helped shape popular views of British landscape in the interwar years, and, during a revival of Watkins’s work from 1969, practices and perceptions of British land art.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
6
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection