The Idea of North

North is the point on the map by which we orient ourselves. It is also the direction taken throught history by the adventurous, the curious, the solitary and the foolhardy. In the Idea of the north Peter Davidson explores the very concept of "north" throug its various manifestations in painting, legend and literature. Histories (ideas of the north / treasures and marvels) Imagination of North( Ice and glass / the north in the 1930s: Auden and Ravillious / Imagined northern territories / Northern summer / Northern exile / Revenants) Topographies (Scandinavia / Japan and China / Canada / Britain) Keeping the twilight