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|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In the mid twentieth century the railway was something There are few positive things which harked back 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 Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars walls - and planes, but steam was being replaced completely taken by oil, even then the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and in the twenty-first century oil is giving way to electricityprint I wanted was ‘not available’. It's cleanerOh, more environmentally friendly and dear - then a few doors down from the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possibleapartment, keen to escape their grime, were restored I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stationsa framed print of the picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024197898X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=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 adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1980891117|title=G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart|author=John HurstWebley|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 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-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=On My WayAbsolutely on Music: Norfolk Coastal WalksConversations with Seiji Ozawa|author=Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa|rating=3.5|genre=Art|summary=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) 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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|genre=SportArt|summary=It was pure serendipity: after a five-hour drive we wereJames, annoyinglyson of the war artist Eric Ravilious, left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the keys to our holiday cottageinherited his father's artistic talents. There Although he was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on our wallsgifted painter, but thought that I would have his main career was to make do with be as a couple of greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and I couldn't resist buying itphotographer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095444003X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia BlackburnWood_Gothic|title=ThreadsAmerican Gothic: The Delicate Life of John CraskeGrant Wood|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonald
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|genre=BiographyArt|summary=John Craske was Who won a fisherman, from national prize for a family crayon drawing of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He three oak leaves before he was born properly in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and would eventually die in came to Europe to study from the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed himgreats, what caused him only to sink into a stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a natural artistic talentpicture of his dentist (yes, albeit that his work had dentist) would be more appealing and say more to be done on the available surfaces people than floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers? The answer in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroiderycases was Grant Wood, producing wonderful pictures of practically the Norfolk coast most well- known painter in America at one time, andstill the best, most famouslyalongside Edward Hopper, of the evacuation at Dunkirkpresenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099582198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=V&A_Patchwork|title=Jo Manton, Phyllis Bray Patchwork and David BuckmanQuilting: A Maker's Guide|titleauthor=Titania Victoria and OberonAlbert Museum
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|genre=Confident ReadersArt|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 ''EquusPatchwork and Quilting: A Maker'', ''Waiting for Godots 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 ''A Mid-summer Nightbig's Dream'' – three very distinctive plays, garden was Versailles as a teenager and my favourite threewhilst I was impressed, out of which you wonI didn't often get me choosing just onereally 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. But were It would be many years before I revised my opinion. On a trip to do soHarewood House, it might actually was too hot a day to be corralled into the lasthouse, for so I wandered the simple reason I would delight in playing any gardens and all characters from itfound they were delightful. Yes, I know Hermia and Helena look felt uplifted. Then a bit implausible now – but I put it cricket match at Stowe gave me the opportunity to you stranger things happen on stage… Some of walk the strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who gets given grounds for over an ass's head hour. I was completely won over and is forced to be the enamoured a devotee of a fairy queenLancelot 'Capability' Brown. It Sarah Rutherford's this section of the play that this book concentrates on, ''Landscape Gardens'' was an opportunity to put him in quite stunning formcontext.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184365329X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The British MuseumBarrie_Peter|title=Origami, Poems Peter Pan and Wendy|author=J M Barrie and PicturesRobert Ingpen|rating=54|genre=CraftsArt|summary=Sometimes you find It's a delight childhood staple - the story of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''OrigamiWendy, Poems John and Pictures'' Michael Darling and I was transported their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to Japanschool each day. As It's George Darling, their father, who makes the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and paintingTinkerbell. IThere'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attentions a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, but I was surprised by the extent boy who never wants to which grow up, Tinkerbell, the rest of rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat lost boys and in case you- of course - Wendy, but then it wouldn're worried, all the entries t have been a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') classic since the original stage production in 1904 and this one is at the lowest levelnovel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857639382</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael ForemanGrahame_Wind|title=Travels With My SketchbookThe Wind in The Willows|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen
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|summary=I guess Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the best childrenWillows''s literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a little was one of the spirit, heart defining books of my childhood and character of more than sixty years after I first read the real thing, whatever book I've just recently passed it may beonto another young reader. And if that's Since the case then it definitely applies to children's literature book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrationsfor the 1913 edition, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. This prolific artist leapt at a scholarship in Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the US when hePooh'd completed his official, formal studies, and it would appear – huge credits list regardless – that he's never stopped moving since) in 1933, as this Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book takes us to all corners illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Wind in the world, and back home againWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704721</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyJenkins_100|title=Stephen BiestyBritain's Trains100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boysIn the mid-twentieth century, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin railway was something which you can see. They want harked back to know how it works. Getting to grips the Victorian age with one in real life is quite a big asktrains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the next best thing twenty-first-century oil is ''Stephen Biestygiving way to electricity. It's Trains'cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we' which features trains from d all over the world rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and spanning the early steam train (complete became places to 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 five-hour drive, we were, annoyingly, left with cow catcher) right through an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have the trains of keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the future which can reach church hall, so we went in - and found a speed display of 430 kph the most gorgeous pictures. I'd cheerfully have bought every one and don't even run hung them on rails. Once the train reaches our walls, but thought that I would have to make do with a speed couple of 150 kph the wheels are raised greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneI couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704241</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura CummingBlackburn_Threads|title= Threads: The Vanishing Man - In Search Delicate Life of VelazquezJohn Craske|author=Julia Blackburn|rating=54
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|summary=Pitching up at an auction 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 picking up would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a lost masterpiece life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a pittance is the dream stupor, sometimes for most art loversyears at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. That seemingly happy circumstance happened to bookseller But John Snare at had a sale natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in 1845 and is his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the centrepiece sea. Then he moved on to Laura Cumming's excellent ''The Vanishing Man – In Pursuit embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of Velazquez''the evacuation at Dunkirk. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587041</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siri HustvedtBray Titania|title= A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on ArtTitania and Oberon|author=Jo Manton, Sex Phyllis Bray and the MindDavid Buckman |rating= 4|genre= Politics and Society Art|summary= I must confess that ''Equus, Waiting for Godot and A Woman LookingMid-summer Night's Dream''– three very distinctive plays, and my favourite three, out of which you won' spoke t often get me choosing just one. But were I to me on a profounddo so, it might actually be the last, intimate levelfor the simple reason that I would delight in playing any and all characters from it. This is in part due 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 apparent similarities between me and Siri Hustvedt - we are both feminists strangest things involve a player himself, a lowly actor who love art gets given an ass's head and also love science in is forced to be enamoured of a world which emphasises that these two passions are mutually exclusivefairy queen. What Hustvedt suggests in ''A Woman LookingIt'' is that it is s this section of the similarities between these two areas we should emphasise and play that a cohesivethis book concentrates on, inclusive approach towards art and science could help fill the gaps in both disciplinesquite stunning form. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473638895</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate PrendergastBM_Origami|title=Dog on a Digger: Origami, Poems and Pictures|author=The Tricky IncidentBritish Museum
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|genre=For SharingArt|summary=Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet Idiscovered 'm going to tell you a story about Dog'Origami, Man, Lady Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the Pup. They all work on an industrial site - in fact Dog title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and Man live there in a caravan crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, haiku poetry and Man drives painting. I'll confess that it was the sort of digger origami which is dreamed about caught my attention, but I was surprised by boys large and small. Lady and the Pup run extent to which the rest of the snack bar book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and one day as theyin case you're worried, all having something the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to eat, 'tricky') and this one is at the Pup goes missinglowest level. Man and Lady search everywhere but it}}'s Dog{{Frontpage|isbn=Foreman_Travel|title=Travels With My Sketchbook|author=Michael Foreman|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=I guess the best children's sharp ears which finally track him down - caught in literature can do away with complete veracity, as long as it has something about it that is recognisable – a branch over a fast-flowing streamlittle of the spirit, heart and character of the real thing, whatever it may be. And if that's the case then itdefinitely applies to children's Dog who works out how to rescue himliterature illustrations, such as those provided close on two hundred times by [[:Category:Michael Foreman|Michael Foreman]]. I needed 88 words 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 tell you that storyall corners of the world, but Kate Prendergast does it without using a single one - and she tells it in a far more engaging way than I could ever manageback home again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910646148</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Will JonesBiesty Trains|title= How to Read New York: A Crash Course in Big Apple ArchitectureStephen Biesty's Trains|author=Ian Graham and Stephen Biesty|rating= 5|genre= TravelArt|summary=New York is home Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to some of know what lies beneath the most iconic and instantly-recognisable pieces of architecture skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in the world. The city real life is quite a mishmash of architectural stylesbig ask, a place where Classical and Colonial meet Renaissance and Modernist. The result but the next best thing is a glorious fusion that works perfectly and upon closer inspection has a plethora of secrets just waiting to be revealed. Welcome to New York...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404104</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=@dogsofinstagram|title=Dogs on Instagram|rating=3.5|genre=Pets|summary=I'm a sucker for dogs: I can't walk past one in Stephen Biesty's Trains'' which features trains from all over the street without stopping world and having a conversation, sometimes without bothering to speak spanning the early steam train (complete with cowcatcher) right through to the owners, so trains of the future which can reach a book speed 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 430 kph and launched just four years ago gives us this book of over four hundred photographs of dogs. Originally I had ''no'' intention of reviewing it: in fact I wasndon'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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