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[[Category:New Reviews|Art]][[Category:Art|*]]__NOTOC__ <!-- remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Gentleman0957181167|title=In the CountryBlue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall

|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 had no intention found myself looking more closely at a couple of reading ''In The Country''. I opened it simply to see what it pictures on the walls - and was like, but completely taken by the time that work of Brian Lewis. I shut it again I was nearly halfway through searched online and I had no intention could only find ‘used’ versions of giving this book and the book to anyone elseprint I wanted was ‘not available’. Now in his eighties David Gentleman is well known as watercolouristOh, specialising in landscapes. He's based in London but also has dear - then a home in Suffolk in few doors down from the village apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of Huntingfield brand new books - and it's this house, a framed print of the village and the surrounding area which is the location for ''In The Country''picture I wanted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095715285X</amazonuk>

{{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 adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and Rachael Adamsits 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 one of the leading portrait miniaturists of Georgian London, with a regular item on Saturday sport programmes on televisioncareer lasting from the 1770s to the Regency era. My father He was an aficionado 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 loved 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 noise1860s, the risk 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 sheer energy hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the sport circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short- my mother less so and lived. But what she quoted did have from that was the noise poise to be an appealing model for some seriously important painters and the strong possibility of there being 'a nasty accident' when the riders slid natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their motorcycles sidewaysaudiences. It is still on television but I'll confess And what she also had, much to not having watched for the surprise of many years and it the distaste of some, was for 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 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 reason , all that Jeff Scottlove is here. And like all who have a good taste in music, Murakami's ''Strictly Shale'' achieved the unusual feat is eclectic and very well considered. I found myself looking up musicians after reading this because I found many of both being an eye opener and bringing back long-forgotten memorieshis opinions quite convincing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956861830</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ravilious_Recent|title=WinterThe Recent Past|author=Adam GopnikJames Ravilious|rating=45|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In this collection of five essaysJames, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season son of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journeywar artist Eric Ravilious, exploring history, art and society, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter'inherited his father's artistic talents. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For exampleAlthough he was a gifted painter, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetry, however, issues such main career was to be as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this bookphotographer.|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 confession. When reading hardbacks I take the paper cover, if there Patchwork is one, off, to keep it pristine. Sometimes there's a second benefit, magical craft: you can take relatively small pieces of material and turn them into another piece of material with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example of having an embossed illustration underneath, or suchlikeentirely different pattern. But Quilting converts a topper and a backing fabric with this book I won't be alone, for the cover folds out some wadding in between into a fabric of an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copiesentirely different weight. It's a coloured replica of a large map of Combine the northern seas two crafts and Scandinaviayou have something more than magical, dating from 1539occasionally 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 is in a category of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole Quilting: A Maker's Guide'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes which looks - as the cover says - at styles from. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all Italian trapunto to Korean jogakbo and then delivers fifteen projects inspired by 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 fashionV&A collections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

{{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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Barrie_Peter|title=Peter Pan and Wendy|author=Judith KerrJ 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 classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Grahame_Wind|title=Judith KerrThe Wind in The Willows|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|rating=4|genre=Art|summary=Kenneth Grahame's Creatures''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: A Celebration 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 Life golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and Work Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of Judith Kerr''The Wind in the Willows''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jenkins_100|title=Britain's 100 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, the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but always impressive. One of those names steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first-century oil is [[:Category:Judith Kerr|Judith Kerr]]giving way to electricity. For decades sheIt's been delighting our children (cleaner, more environmentally friendly and grandchildren) but it still came the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as something of a surprise possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to discover that she would be ninety admired, possibly even lingered in June 2013. To celebrate thisSimon 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, Harper Collins left with an hour to fill in Blakeney before we could have published ''Creatures'' the keys to our holiday cottage. There was an art exhibition in the church hall, so we went in which Judith tells not just her own story but that - and found a display of the most gorgeous pictures. I''creatures'' - the characters in her books d cheerfully have bought every one and her family - who hung them on our walls, but thought that I would have contributed to her inspirational life. It is, though, far more than just an autobiography make do with a marvellous collection couple of paintings, drawings greetings cards when I saw ''On My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks'' and memorabiliaI couldn't resist buying it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007513216</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick GekoskiBlackburn_Threads|title=Lost, Stolen or ShreddedThreads: Stories The Delicate Life of missing works of art and literatureJohn Craske|author=Julia Blackburn

|summary=Over the centuriesJohn Craske was a fisherman, many works from a family of art 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 disappeared 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 then come backhe was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, or been returned almost as if they albeit that his work had never been awayto be done on the available surfaces in his home. OthersChair seats, less fortunatewindow sills, were simply destroyed. A very few never really existed at the backs of doors allcarried his wonderful pictures of the sea. That is Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the basis of this unusual Norfolk coast - and very intriguing read from rare book dealer, writer and broadcaster Rick Gekoskimost famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846684919</amazonuk>

{{Frontpage|isbn=Bray Titania|title=Titania and Oberon|author=Jo 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.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosy SherryBM_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>