Dickens 2012 is an international celebration with events and activities to mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth. The Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy will be bringing a variety of educational and artistic forums across the world. We’ve invited Malcolm Andrews, Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies in the School of English (until 2009) to come to China. He used to be the editor of The Dickensian, a journal founded in 1905. His publications in landscape aesthetics and visual arts include Landscape and Western Art, The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 and The Picturesque: Sources and Documents.(an authoritative compilation of materials of discussions and argument on the picturesque, including the interpretation of decorative classical Chinese gardens; historian and philosopher Lovejoy asserted that European Romanticism has a Chinese origin which is related to the introduction and development of the picturesque).

Malcolm Andrews was a professor of Victorian and Visual Studies in the School of English at the University of Kent until 2009, and served as editor of The Dickensian, a journal founded in 1905 that is published three times a year, in Spring, Summer, and Winter. He is also a former president of the Dickens Society (of America).

Professor Andrews’s book publications in landscape aesthetics and the visual arts include The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800(1989) and The Picturesque: Sources and Documents (1994), Landscape and Western Art (1999) a volume in the New Oxford History of Art series.

Partner: Lane Crawford

About UK Now@UCCA
UK Now is the largest ever festival of British arts and creative industries to take place in China. Coinciding with the London Olympics and the 40th anniversary of China-UK Diplomatic relations, the Festival will bring British and Chinese arts institutions, artists and art lovers closer together. In collaboration with British Council, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) will present a series of art experience events in music, architecture, design, visual art, dance, literature and film.