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|summary=Trains look imposing, There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but true fans (little boysthis time, usually from about three years old in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and upwards) want to know what lies beneath was completely taken by the skin which you can seework of Brian Lewis. They want to know how it worksI searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Getting to grips Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wanted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one in real life , although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is quite a big ask, but black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the next best thing is influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'Stephen Biesty's Trainsgives Coleridge credit for being '' which features trains from all over the world and spanning first person to walk the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through mountains alone, not because he had to the trains of the future which can reach for work, as a speed of 430 kph miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and don't even run on railsadventure. Once the train reaches a speed His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=Laura CummingJohn Webley|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=George Engleheart was one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hewitt_Renoir|title= Renoir's Dancer: The Vanishing Man Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of both creative and societal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short- In Search lived. But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Murakami_Music|title=Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3.5|genre=Art|summary=Murakami loves music, any reader of Velazquezhis could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and After Dark is framed by a music soundtrack in a brilliant display of atmospheric setting. With this, all that love is here. And like all who have a good taste in music, Murakami's is eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of his opinions quite convincing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=The Recent Past|author=James Ravilious
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|summary=Pitching up at an auction and picking up a lost masterpiece for a pittance is James, son of the dream for most art loverswar artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talents. That seemingly happy circumstance happened Although he was a gifted painter, his main career was to bookseller John Snare at be as a sale in 1845 and is the centrepiece to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit of Velazquez''photographer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri HustvedtWood_Gothic|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at WomenAmerican Gothic: Essays on Art, Sex The Life of Grant Wood|author=Susan Wood and the MindRoss MacDonald|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and Society Art|summary= I must confess that ''A Woman Looking'' spoke to me on Who won a national prize for a profound, intimate level. This is crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in part due his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and came to Europe to study from the apparent similarities between me greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists who love art say more to people than floating water lilies and also love science frilly ballet dancers? The answer in a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusive. What Hustvedt suggests all cases was Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in ''A Woman Looking'' is that it is the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and that a cohesiveAmerica at one time, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill still the gaps in both disciplinesbest, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide|author=Kate PrendergastVictoria and Albert Museum|rating=4.5|genre=Art|summary=Patchwork is a magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with an entirely different pattern. Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with some wadding in between into a fabric of an entirely different weight. Combine the two crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is to read ''Patchwork and Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the V&A collections.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rutherford_Landscape|title=Landscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I was impressed, I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of it all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House, it was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the gardens and found they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and a devotee of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in context.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Barrie_Peter|title=Dog on Peter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn't have been a Diggerclassic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grahame_Wind|title=The Wind in The Willows|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. Since the book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Tricky IncidentWind in the Willows''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jenkins_100|title=Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|genre=For SharingArt|summary=IIn the mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'm going d all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to tell you be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Hurst_Norfolk|title=On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It was pure serendipity: after a story about Dogfive-hour drive, we were, Manannoyingly, Lady left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the Pupmost gorgeous pictures. They all work I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying it.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Blackburn_Threads|title=Threads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|author=Julia Blackburn|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on an industrial site - the north Norfolk coast in fact Dog 1881 and Man live there would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a caravan and Man drives the sort of digger life which is dreamed about could have been defined by boys large ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a stupor, sometimes for years at a time and smallhe was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. Lady and But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the Pup run available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the snack bar and one day as they're backs of doors all having something carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to eatembroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Pup goes missingNorfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk. Man }}{{Frontpage|isbn=Bray Titania|title=Titania and Oberon|author=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray and Lady search everywhere but itDavid Buckman |rating=4|genre=Art|summary='s Dog's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in a branch over a fastEquus, Waiting for Godot and A Mid-flowing stream. And itsummer Night's Dog who works Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out how to rescue himof which you won't often get me choosing just one. But were I needed 88 words to tell you do so, it might actually be the last, for the simple reason that storyI would delight in playing any and all characters from it. Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but Kate Prendergast does I put it without using to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the strangest things involve a player himself, a single one - lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and she tells it is forced to be enamoured of a fairy queen. It's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, in a far more engaging way than I could ever managequite stunning form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will JonesBM_Origami|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum|rating= 5|genre= TravelArt|summary=New York is home Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to some Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces rest of architecture in the worldbook caught my imagination. The city is We begin with something very simple: a mishmash of architectural stylesboat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a place where Classical degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernistthis one is at the lowest level. The result }}'{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=I guess the best children's literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a glorious fusion that works perfectly little of the spirit, heart and upon closer inspection has a plethora character of secrets just waiting to the real thing, whatever it may be revealed. Welcome And if that's the case then it definitely applies to New Yorkchildren's literature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in the US when he'd completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since, as this book takes us to all corners of the world, and back home again..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=@dogsofinstagramBiesty Trains|title=Dogs on InstagramStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|rating=3.5|genre=PetsArt|summary=I'm a sucker for dogs: I Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can't walk past see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in the street without stopping and having real life is quite a conversationbig ask, sometimes without bothering to speak to but the owners, so a book of pictures of dogs was going to be right up my street. The wildly popular @dogs_of_instagram, run by Ahmed El Shourbagy and his wife Ashley and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had next best thing is ''Stephen Biesty'nos Trains'' intention which features trains from all over the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the trains of the future which can reach a speed of reviewing it: in fact I wasn430 kph and don't even intending to read run on rails. Once the book, just to have train reaches a quick flick through, but within five minutes I was showing other people in speed of 150 kph the office wheels are raised and the picture of the Weimaraner riding a bicycletrain is held up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1452151970</amazonuk>
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