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Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems (2011) is an introduction to a form of poetry that can be read in different directions.  ...

The Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli (1127–1206) currently has a mere three-line entry on Wikipedia and there is no anthology of his verse in...

I was very tempted this week to go to Cafe Oto for Brunhild Ferrari in conversation with David Grubbs, but it was on 14 February and I di...

Watercolour World is a new online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900 which launched at the end of January.  You can u...

Richard Wilson, The Temple of Clitumnus,  with the cows drinking from the spring of Clitumnus,  near Spoleto, Umbria (detail), 18th ...

The Great Polish Map of Scotland Source: Wikimedia Commons (John Riddell) I have written here before about relief maps, focusing on...

I am returning here to a subject I covered over ten years ago, the gardens of the kings of Assyria, because I have been to see the Britis...

Salomon Gessner, Bucolic Scene , 1767 My post yesterday was about a nineteenth century French-speaking Swiss writer from Geneva; thi...

'Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.' -  Henri-Frédéric Amiel This is one of those quotes about landscape you come acros...

'A lot of my paintings are anonymous backdrops for the drama of words.  In a way, they're words in front of the old Paramount...

I thought it was time to bring back my regular surveys of 'landscape music', having had a couple of years off.  The last one I did ...

George Lambert, Box Hill with Dorking in the Distance , 1733 Images: Wikimedia Commons Yale University's British Art Studies is...

Zhao Mengfu, Water Village , 1302 Source: Wikimedia Commons I have been reading Shane McCausland's scholarly study, Zhao Mengfu:...

Jean-Gabriel Charvet and Joseph Dufour,   Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique wallpaper, before 1829 A new article in British Art Studies ...

One of the most renowned Buster Keaton stunts involves him getting the better of a landscape feature.  Our Hospitality (1923) has scenes...

Robert S. Duncanson, Vesuvius and Pompeii, 1870 Source: Wikimedia Commons I now have just over a month left of my project to tweet a ...