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[[Category:New Reviews|Art]][[Category:Art|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- remove -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis__NOTOC__|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. 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, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, 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 influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Jeff Scott Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary=''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and Rachael Adamsadventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=Strictly ShaleG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Circling British SpeedwayA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley

|genre=SportArt|summary=When I George Engleheart was young I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado and loved one of the noiseleading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a career lasting from the risk and 1770s to the sheer energy Regency era. He was also one of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of there them being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sidewaysof King George III). It is still on television but I'll confess to not having watched for many years and it was for this reason Throughout most of that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved time he carefully recorded the unusual feat names of both being an eye opener each of his clients, and bringing back long-forgotten memoriessubsequently transcribed them into what is referred to as his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hewitt_Renoir|title=WinterRenoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Adam GopnikCatherine Hewitt|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In this collection Deep in the rural parts of five essaysFrance in the 1860s, each one offering 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 unique full generation of both creative and fascinating perspective on societal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the season hedonistic culture of winterMontmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, Adam Gopnik takes although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the reader on poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and a captivating journey, exploring history, art natural beauty and society, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' figure to appeal to both them and ''Remembering Winter''their audiences. In each essayAnd what she also had, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themesmuch to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, whilst also touching was artistic talent of her own…}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Murakami_Music|title=Absolutely on surrounding ideasMusic: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3. For example5|genre=Art|summary=Murakami loves music, in Romantic Winter any reader of his central topics are art could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a Beatles song (albeit one not very well known) and poetryAfter Dark is framed by a music soundtrack in a brilliant display of atmospheric setting. With this, howeverall that love is here. And like all who have a good taste in music, issues such as changing society, technology, sex Murakami's is eclectic and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notionsvery well considered. He also includes two sections featuring collections I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of artwork to illustrate his viewpointsopinions quite convincing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=The Recent Past|author=James Ravilious|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=James, which add son of the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his father's artistic talents. Although he was a charminggifted painter, individual touch his main career was to this bookbe as a photographer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Wood_Gothic|title=American Gothic: The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Ageof Grant Wood|author=Vic GatrellSusan Wood and Ross MacDonald

|genre=HistoryArt|summary=It Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in the eighteenth century that his teens? Who sought acclaim as an area of London consisting of about half a square mile, from Soho artist and Leicester Square across Covent Garden’s Piazza came to Europe to Drury Lane, and down study from Long Acre to the Strandgreats, with Covent Garden at the very centreonly to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, became what has his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in modern times been recognised as the world’s first creative ‘bohemia’. This all cases was where Grant Wood, practically the cream of Britain’s significant artists, actors, poets, novelistsmost well-known painter in America at one time, and dramatists of still the age lived and workedbest, side by side with the city’s chief market tradersalongside Edward Hopper, craftsmen, shopkeepers, rakes, pickpockets and prostitutes. One might say that all human life was hereat presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846146771</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Sea MonstersPatchwork and Quilting: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus MagnusA Maker's Marine MapGuide|author=Joseph NiggVictoria and Albert Museum

|genre=Popular ScienceArt|summary=A confessionPatchwork 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. When reading hardbacks I take Combine the paper covertwo crafts and you have something more than magical, occasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, if when there are so many different styles of both crafts? One answer is one, off, to keep it pristineread ''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. Sometimes there}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Rutherford_Landscape|title=Landscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=My first experience of a ''big''s garden was Versailles as a second benefitteenager and whilst I was impressed, with [[Longbourn I didn't really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by Jo Baker]] as an example the flatness of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlikeit all. As luck would have it I then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was off big gardens. But with this book It would be many years before I won't revised my opinion. On a trip to Harewood House, it was too hot a day to be alonecorralled 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 the cover folds out into over an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copieshour. 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=Peter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=It's a coloured replica of a large map childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the northern seas and ScandinaviaNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's George Darling, dating from 1539their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and is in the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. There's a category wonderful mix of three major artful scientific papers characters, from where Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creatorrather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, Olaus Magnusthe lost boys and - of course - Wendy, followed but then it up years later with wouldn't have been a commentary classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of all 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 sea creatures he drew on book I've just recently passed itonto 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, but Magnus has waited centuries Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for this delicious volume to commentate on both togetherhis 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 Wind in such a lovely fashionthe Willows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Judith KerrJenkins_100|title=Judith KerrBritain's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Kerr100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins

|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=In children's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliablethe mid-twentieth century, but always impressive. One of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]. For decades she's been delighting our children (the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and grandchildren) planes, but it still came as something of a surprise to discover that she would be ninety in June 2013. To celebrate thissteam was being replaced by oil, Harper Collins have published ''Creatures'' even then and in which Judith tells not just her own story but that of the ''creatures'' twenty- the characters in her books and her family first- who have contributed century oil is giving way to her inspirational lifeelectricity. It is's cleaner, thoughmore environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection of paintingskeen to escape their grime, drawings were restored and memorabiliabecame places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick GekoskiHurst_Norfolk|title=Lost, Stolen or ShreddedOn My Way: Stories of missing works of art and literatureNorfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|summary=Over the centuriesIt was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, many works of art left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have disappeared and then come back, or been returned almost as if they had never been awaythe keys to our holiday cottage. OthersThere was an art exhibition in the church hall, less fortunate, were simply destroyedso we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. A very few never really existed at all. That is the basis of this unusual I'd cheerfully have bought every one and very intriguing read from rare book dealerhung them on our walls, writer 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 broadcaster Rick GekoskiI couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684919</amazonuk>

{{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 the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by 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 he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Bray Titania|title=Titania and Oberon|author=Rosy SherryJo Manton, Phyllis Bray and David Buckman |rating=4|genre=Art|summary=''Equus, Waiting for Godot and A Mid-summer Night's Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out of which you won't often get me choosing just one. But were I to do so, it might actually be the last, for the simple reason that I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of the strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who gets given an ass's head and is forced to be enamoured of a fairy queen. It's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, in quite stunning form.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=BM_Origami|title=BoobadoodleOrigami, Poems and Pictures|author=The British Museum

|genre=HumourArt|summary=Boobadoodle is Sometimes you find a delight of a book of doodles. On boobsan afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. Fifty doodles on a variety As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of boobspaper folding, some belonging to haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the authororigami which caught my attention, some but I was surprised by the extent to her friendswhich the rest of the book caught my imagination. Quite good friendsWe begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, I imagineall the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the lowest level.}}'{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|amazonukgenre=Art|summary=<amazonuk>1846059267</amazonuk>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 little of the spirit, heart and character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then it definitely applies to children'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.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Simon SykesBiesty Trains|title=Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975Stephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty

|summary=As one of the major names of British twentieth century artTrains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, David Hockney has always been a larger than life figure. Published usually from about three years old and upwards) want to coincide with his 75th birthday, this is know what lies beneath the first volume of a biography skin which tells his story up you can see. They want to 1975know how it works.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846057086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carola Hicks|title=Girl Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of big ask, but the Arnolfini Portrait|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=The Arnolfini marriage portrait, as it next best thing is generally if perhaps inaccurately known, painted by Flemish artist Jan van Eyck, signed ''Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the world and dated 1434, has long been one spanning the early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the trains of the most popular future which can reach a speed of 430 kph and enigmatic paintings of its timedon't even run on rails. Of modest size, Once the train reaches a little less than three feet high, it is one speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and the oldest surviving panel pictures to be painted in oils rather than tempera. It train is also regarded as the first work of art which simultaneously celebrates both middle-class comfort and monogamous marriageheld up by magnetic forces alone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526891</amazonuk>