some LANDSCAPES

The Epic of Everest (1924) is an extraordinary landscape film - mainly shot in black and white but sometimes tinted in vivid colours, inclu...

 Michael Snow, still from  La Région Centrale , 1971 I thought I would focus here on a fascinating work of landscape art that I have only b...

Mountains in the Classical Tradition was a research project based at St. Andrews University from 2017 to 2023. It incorporated a blog which...

I was curious to see the White Cube's Cai Guo-Qiang exhibition but conflicted after the recent controversy surrounding his firework per...

This latticework landscape is currently on display in Kensington High Street at the Japan House exhibition   The Craft of Carpentry: Drawing...

  Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Mont Blanc Seen from the Massif, Les Aiguilles Rouges , 1874 This wonderful watercolour is reproduced in K...

I still occasionally end up buying a book for its cover, or at least picking it out to look at on that basis. This one (published last year)...

The renowned American poetry critic Helen Vendler died a few weeks ago; there was a nice piece in The Atlantic by Adam Kirsch comparing her...

Carl Gustav Carus, Woman on a Balcony , 1824 (used as the cover for OUP edition of The Mysteries of Udolpho ). The Mysteries of Udolpho is o...

I recently watched The Eight Mountains which I'd been looking forward to since reading Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian : T...

  Kuncan, Origin of Immortals , 1661 I've been looking into the art of Kuncan (or Kun Can, 1623-73), a Buddhist monk who lived in and ar...

  West Lake, Hangzhou Source: Wikimedia I've just read Love & Time: The Poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu , a slim volume of J. P. Seaton trans...

Last month Dezeen reported on a new landscape intervention by Snøhetta, a 'disappearing walkway' of 55 stepping stones on the Trael...

I've discussed Red Pine's translations from Chinese poetry before (see ' No Trace of Cold Mountain ' and ' A terrace of ...

Isamu Noguchi, Double Red Mountain , 1968   I instinctively liked this sculpted landscape in the Barbican's Isamu Noguchi exhibition be...

Jean-Antoine Linck, The confluence of the river Valsereine with the river Rhône, c. 1800-20 The British Museum currently has a small tempor...

Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology edited by Todd Andrew Borlik was published last year and so ...

Unknown artist, Jade Mountain Illustrating  the Gathering of Scholars at the Lanting Pavilion , 1790 Source: Wikimedia Commons Th...