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|summary=Before I start, there is nothing wrong with being an anally retentive trainspottery type. Having There are few positive things which can be said thatabout a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, do you see what in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the front cover of this first edition marks this book out as being walls - and was completely and utterly for taken by the trainspottery type? It is the fact that the foreword is both credited, and datedwork of Brian Lewis. Yes, unless a major change was imminent I searched online and the Executive Chairman could only find ‘used’ versions of BA was going to be someone else within weeks, this book gladly states that March 2016 and the print I wanted was when he put finger to laptop and came up with his page-long contribution‘not available’. Have you ever known such attention to detail? I guess it's to be expectedOh, when dear - then a few doors down from the book concerns such apartment, I found a gift shop with a singular entity as the visual history stack of charts brand new books - and maps as used by a framed print of the airlines that became British Airwayspicture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445654644</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Matt SewellAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Penguins and Other Sea BirdsRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction |summary=I've [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been fascinated by Penguins: black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I think it's because they look so ''smart'' could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and strikingis, yet survive in extreme conditions, so the opportunity to review a book which contains fifty penguins black and white and other seabirds was too good to missred. Just the pictures would have been enough - the minimalist watercolours of street artist Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and ornithologist Matt Sewell - but SewellI think it's whimsical wit and ability possible to teach without being preachy makes this a book to treasuresay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785032224</amazonuk>1913547183
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David P Colley1912242052|title=Seeing the War: The Stories Behind the Famous Photographs from World War IIO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=HistoryArt|summary=As anybody could tell, a still photograph is only part of the truth, if that. There is a beforehand we don't see, and an after we can only fantasise about unless we know otherwise. Take 'Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the famous image of wartime grunts pushing first person to walk the flag pole upright – an icon of the War in the Pacific mountains alone, not because he had to for the US soldierswork, and the films made about Iwo Jima since. But other images of the war have been just as longa miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-lastinghorse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and the people in the photos don't always have movies made of their full story arcadventure. This book is a collection of the imagesHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and a corrective to that narrative lackits literary consequences, giving much more changed our view of a full biography with which to pay tributethe world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1611687268</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Isabel Sanchez Vegara and Eng Gee Fan1980891117|title=Little People, Big DreamsG Engleheart Pinxit 1805: Frida KahloA year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John Webley|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersArt|summary=Frida Kahlo George Engleheart was born in Mexico. When she was a young schoolgirl she contracted polio and was left one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a leg which was ''skinny as a rake'', but she bore career lasting from the 1770s to the problem stoically and in some ways delighted in being differentRegency era. Then He was also one day Frida was in a bus which crashed into a car. She was badly injured and even when she was over of the worst she still had to rest in bed and filled the time by drawing picturesmost prolific, painting nearly 5, including a self portrait000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Eventually she showed her pictures to a famous artist - Diego Rivera - who liked Throughout most of that time he carefully recorded the picturesnames of each of his clients, ''and'' Frida. They married and Rivera encouraged Frida's painting. She exhibited, eventually in New York, subsequently transcribed them into what is referred to great acclaimas his fee book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807704</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jackie MorrisHewitt_Renoir|title= Renoir's Dancer: The Wild SwansSecret Life of Suzanne Valadon|author=Catherine Hewitt|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersArt|summary= The most well known version Deep in the rural parts of France in the wild swans is probably the one penned by Hans Andersen. This extended retelling by Jackie Morris adds depth1860s, emotional resonance you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a number movement at that, but a full generation of new twists 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 talehedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. As She started in most versionsthe circus that first caught her teenaged eye, Eliza although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and her brothers live a happy natural beauty and privileged life until their father's remarriage brings jealousy, mistrust and trouble in its wake. The brothers are magically changed into wild swans and it is up figure to brave Eliza appeal to rescue both themand their audiences. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805361</amazonuk>And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HickmanMurakami_Music|title= The Art of Stephen HickmanAbsolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating= 43.5|genre= FantasyArt|summary= Stephen Hickman has been Murakami loves music, any reader of his could tell you as much. Norwegian Wood was named after a Beatles song (albeit one not very well known artist ) and After Dark is framed by a music soundtrack in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number brilliant display of years nowatmospheric setting. With this, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Nivenall that love is here. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditionalAnd like all who have a good taste in music, Murakami's is eclectic and yet modernvery well considered. ''The Art I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic processhis opinions quite convincing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lewis Carroll, Mark Burstein (editor) and Salvador DaliRavilious_Recent|title=Alice's Adventures in WonderlandThe Recent Past|author=James Ravilious|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersArt|summary=If you don't know the story nowJames, then where have you been for a hundred and fifty years? A young girl sees a hurrying white rabbit, follows it, falls down a hole, fails to recognise son of the 'stranger danger' in partaking of random foods and drinks just because of a label on them, nearly drowns a whole menagerie of animals in a lake of her own tears, takes advice from someone on drugs, plays cards, or croquet, or both or neither, and wakes up to find it all a dream. Someone else tried out such gibberish on a young girlwar artist Eric Ravilious, wrote it down in a flurry, made a hugely successful name for himself, and woke up to find even at this remove that most people (unlike me) adore the thing. But itinherited his father's not just for now, its 150th birthday, that the work gets reprintedartistic talents. In the 1960s, someone came up with the idea to put the esoteric, surreal and daft mind of Salvador Dali in cahoots with the esoteric, surreal and daft world of Carroll's Alice, and the result Although he was a very rare and valuable edition – a box set of illustrated bookletsgifted painter, perfectly suited his main career was to the very surrealistic 105th birthday. Since getting sight of one is like seeing be as a flat clock in Dali's pictures, this decent hardback replication is the nearest you'll get to owning one of the most special of Alice editionsphotographer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0691170029</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David HollisWood_Gothic|title=Practical Landscape PaintingAmerican Gothic: Materials, Techniques & ProjectsThe Life of Grant Wood|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald
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|summary=Almost any Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of us can visit the countryside three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and capture came to Europe to study from the view in our memory or on our camera with comparatively consummate ease. However capturing it in paint is more difficult and yet something some greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of us his dentist (me includedyes, his dentist) dream of. It would be more appealing and say more to people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in all cases was therefore with great excitement that I picked up this compact book of seven lessons Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in landscape painting. As I believe (with good evidence) that I have America at one time, and still the artistic ability of a house brickbest, alongside Edward Hopper, it would be a challenge but I also have a dream to followat presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402802</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher DellV&A_Patchwork|title=MythologyPatchwork and Quilting: An Illustrated Journey Into Our Imagined WorldsA Maker's Guide|author=Victoria and Albert Museum
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|genre=Spirituality and ReligionArt|summary=What does Patchwork is a rainbow mean to magical craft: you? How would you explain the creation 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 world if two crafts and you had no science as suchhave something more than magical, or the changing of the seasons? What other kinds of natures – chaotic trickeryoccasionally fashionable but always deeply satisfying. But where to start, evil personae or even the characteristics when there are so many different styles of goats – people your worldboth crafts? And why One answer is it that the answers man and woman have collectively formed to such questions have been so similar across the oceans read ''Patchwork and across Quilting: A Maker's Guide'' which looks - as the centuries? This highly pictorial volume looks cover says - at styles from Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by the mythologies that formed those answers, and locks on to a multitude of subjects – blood, music, godly activity – to show us what has followedV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500291519</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules NilssonRutherford_Landscape|title=The Hounds of FalsterboLandscape Gardens|author=Sarah Rutherford
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|summary=My first experience of a ''big'' garden was Versailles as a teenager and whilst I have to admitwas impressed, I wasndidn't a huge fan really like it. I felt stifled and strangely underwhelmed by the flatness of maths at schoolit all. Maybe if As luck would have it I'd had this book when then saw Hampton Court and it was official: I was a child, off big gardens. It would be many years before I would have beenrevised my opinion. 'This is not On a Maths Book' cleverly bridges the gap between maths and art and teaches kids how trip to make beautiful patterns and shapes by using mathematical principles. We learn about parabolic curvesHarewood House, Pascal's triangleit was too hot a day to be corralled into the house, so I wandered the stomachion, tesselation gardens and 3D drawingsfound they were delightful. I felt uplifted. Because Then a cricket match at Stowe gave me the pages are interactive opportunity to walk the grounds for over an hour. I was completely won over and hands-on, kids are learning the rules a devotee of maths without realising itLancelot 'Capability' Brown. After all, there is no reason why maths shouldn Sarah Rutherford's ''Landscape Gardens''t be fun!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402055</amazonuk>was an opportunity to put him in context.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew WilsonBarrie_Peter|title=Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the SkinPeter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and Robert Ingpen
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|genre=BiographyArt|summary=On It's a childhood staple - the face story of it Lee McQueen might not have seemed like Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the ideal candidate for greatness in the world of haute coutureNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. He was It's George Darling, their father, who makes the youngest son of an East London taxi driver, but there was history mistake when he locks Nana in the rag trade within yard and the family, although his father told him that if he wanted children are whisked away to sell clothes he should get a market stallNeverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Determined to do it There''his'' ways a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, Lee borrowed the money from a relative boy who never wants to enable him to attend Central St Martins after doing a tailoring apprenticeship. The name 'Lee' might confuse yougrow up, Tinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the lost boys and - of course - Wendy, but at then it wouldn't have been a classic since the time McQueen began his own business he was claiming benefits original stage production in 1904 and decided to use his middle name to avoid detectionthe novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471131785</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Quentin BlakeGrahame_Wind|title=Tell me a Picture - Adventures The Wind in Looking at Art|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When did you last read a children's book that absolutely flummoxed you in the way it showed or told you something you didn't know? (And please be an adult when you answer that, or else it won't be quite so impressive.) Back in 2001, Quentin Blake wasn't a Knight yet – he hadn't even got his CBE – but he did get allowed to put on his own show at the National Gallery, with other people's pictures that contain oddities, stories, unexpected detail – sparks on canvas and paper that would inspire anyone looking, of whatever age, to piece things together, work things out, ''form a narrative''. The pictures came with no major labelling, no context – just what they held, and some typically scratched Blake characters discussing the images as a lead-in. They were simply hung in alphabetical order, and probably could not have been more different. This then is a picture book of the most literal kind, with 26 stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847806422</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWillows|author=David Esterly|title=The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of MakingKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen
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|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=Bouncing between his studio Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in upstate New York and the sites of various English sojourns, woodcarver David EsterlyWillows's seems to be an idyllic existence. Yet it's not all cosy cottages in was one of the snow defining books of my childhood and watching geese and coyotes when he looks up from his workbenchmore than sixty years after I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. There is an element of hard-won retreat from Since the trials of life book was first published in this memoir, but at the same time 1908 there is an argument have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the essential difficulty 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the artistPooh's life. 'Carvers are starvers) in 1933,' a wizened English carver once told him. Certainly there is no great fortune to be won Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from a profession as obscure as limewood carving, but the rewards outweigh golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Wind in the hard graft for EsterlyWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649191</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alexander McCall SmithJenkins_100|title=A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall SmithBritain's Edinburgh100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|genre=TravelArt|summary=It might be simplest if I begin by telling you what this book is ''not''. It's not a book of beautiful photographs (with some supporting text) of In the mid-twentieth century, the places you'll almost certainly want railway was something which harked back to visit if you're visiting Edinburgh as a tourist. If that's what you want then there are dozens of such books available all over the city at a fraction of the cost of ''A Work of Beauty''. This might have the look of a coffee table book (Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and it would certainly look impressive there) planes, but it has a lot more depth steam was being replaced by oil, even then and interest than you might expectin the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. This is a book of Alexander McCall SmithIt's Edinburghcleaner, more environmentally friendly and the city he walks around every daystations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, constantly seeing something newkeen to escape their grime, something else with a story were restored and became places to tellbe admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1902419863</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=Beautiful Patterns|author=Various Authors|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summaryisbn=If you are going to make a colouring book aimed at adults I say do it 100% and go all out. You can keep your minimalist landscapes or your naïve animals; give me a page packed to the gills with something that needs filling in. This can make a creative colouring book for grownups feel more like a military operation, but at least you will have fun doing it and improve your skills.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432787</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewHurst_Norfolk|title=Summers of DiscontentOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=Raymond Tallis and Julian SpaldingJohn Hurst|rating=54
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|summary=Raymond Tallis is what some people may refer to as It was pure serendipity: after a Renaissance Man. He is a doctor (specificallyfive-hour drive, we were, a neurologist)annoyingly, a philosopherleft 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 poet display of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a cultural critic. couple of greetings cards when I saw ''Summers of DiscontentOn My Way: The Purpose of the Arts TodayNorfolk Coastal Walks'' is a collection of excerpts from Tallis’s numerous other works, extracted and collated by Julian Spalding – curator and Tallis’ contemporary. It’s a testament to the free-flowing, all-encompassing way in which Tallis writes that these excerpts sit next to each other seamlessly; they feel like one complete discussion, which is an achievement in itselfI couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524405</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David GentlemanBlackburn_Threads|title=In the CountryThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|author=Julia Blackburn|rating=54
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|summary=I had no intention John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of reading ''In The Countryfishermen, 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'. I opened it simply to see what it was likeBut John had a natural artistic talent, but by the time albeit that I shut it again I was nearly halfway through and I his work had no intention of giving to be done on the book to anyone else. Now available surfaces in his eighties David Gentleman is well known as watercolouristhome. Chair seats, window sills, specialising in landscapes. He's based in London but also has a home in Suffolk in the village backs of Huntingfield and it's this housedoors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the village Norfolk coast - and , most famously, of the surrounding area which is the location for ''In The Country''evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095715285X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeff Scott and Rachael AdamsBray Titania|title=Strictly Shale: Circling British SpeedwayTitania and Oberon|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summaryauthor=When I was young I remember Speedway being a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on television. My father was an aficionado and loved the noiseJo Manton, the risk and the sheer energy of the sport - my mother less so and she quoted the noise and the strong possibility of there being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid their motorcycles sideways. It is still on television but I'll confess to not having watched for many years and it was for this reason that Jeff Scott's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat of both being an eye opener Phyllis Bray and bringing back long-forgotten memories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Winter|author=Adam GopnikDavid Buckman
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|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In this collection of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and society, through ''Romantic Winter''Equus, Waiting for Godot and A Mid-summer Night''Radical Winters Dream''– three very distinctive plays, ''Recuperative Winter''and my favourite three, out of which you won''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''t often get me choosing just one. In each essayBut were I to do so, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For exampleit might actually be the last, for the simple reason that I would delight in Romantic Winter his central topics are art playing any and poetryall characters from it. Yes, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex I know Hermia and culture are also explored, in relation Helena look a bit implausible now – but I put it to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections you stranger things happen on stage… Some of artwork to illustrate his viewpointsthe strangest things involve a player himself, which add a charming, individual touch 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 bookconcentrates on, in quite stunning form.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|title=The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age|author=Vic Gatrell|rating=4.5|genre=History|summaryisbn=It was in the eighteenth century that an area of London consisting of about half a square mile, from Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden’s Piazza to Drury Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, with Covent Garden at the very centre, became what has in modern times been recognised as the world’s first creative ‘bohemia’. This was where the cream of Britain’s significant artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists of the age lived and worked, side by side with the city’s chief market traders, craftsmen, shopkeepers, rakes, pickpockets and prostitutes. One might say that all human life was here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846146771</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBM_Origami|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map|author=Joseph Nigg|rating=4.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=A confession. When reading hardbacks I take the paper cover, if there is oneOrigami, off, to keep it pristine. Sometimes there's a second benefit, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlike. But with this book I won't be alone, for the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copies. It's a coloured replica of a large map of the northern seas Poems and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, and is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole 'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, in such a lovely fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewPictures|author=Judith Kerr|title=Judith Kerr's Creatures: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith KerrThe British Museum
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|genre=AutobiographyArt|summary=In childrenSometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered 's literature there are some authors whom you know are not just reliable'Origami, but always impressivePoems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. One As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of those names is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]paper folding, haiku poetry and painting. For decades sheI's been delighting our children (and grandchildren) ll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but it still came as I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. We begin with something of very simple: a surprise to discover that she would be ninety boat and in June 2013. To celebrate thiscase you're worried, Harper Collins all the entries have published ''Creatures'' in which Judith tells not just her own story but that a degree of the difficulty (from 'simple'creaturesthrough to 'tricky' - the characters in her books ) and her family - who have contributed to her inspirational life. It this one is, though, far more than just an autobiography with a marvellous collection of paintings, drawings and memorabiliaat the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>}}'{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick GekoskiForeman_Travel|title=Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of missing works of art and literatureTravels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman
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|summary=Over I guess the centuriesbest children's literature can do away with complete veracity, many works as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little of art have disappeared the spirit, heart and character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then come backit definitely applies to children's literature illustrations, or been returned almost such as if they had never been awaythose provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. OthersThis prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in the US when he'd completed his official, less fortunateformal studies, were simply destroyed. A very few and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never really existed at stopped moving since, as this book takes us to all. That is corners of the basis of this unusual and very intriguing read from rare book dealerworld, writer and broadcaster Rick Gekoskiback home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684919</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosy SherryBiesty Trains|title=Boobadoodle|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=Boobadoodle is a book of doodles. On boobs. Fifty doodles on a variety of boobs, some belonging to the author, some to her friends. Quite good friends, I imagine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846059267</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Christopher Simon Sykes|title=Hockney: The Biography, Volume 1, 1937-1975Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty
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|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>
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