Inspiring Older Readers
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The Berlin of George Grosz : Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1912 - 1930 posted on 17 Jun 2016
Troubled times breed troubled and troubling artists.
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Three Banners of China posted on 31 May 2016
French photographer, Marc Riboud, is approaching 93 years of age and he can look back on a photographic career ...
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Paris Mon Amour posted on 19 May 2016
The romance of Paris rather passed me by on the one occasion I visited it.
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Front Cover : Great Book Jacket and Cover Design posted on 17 May 2016
One of the great, unacknowledged art forms of the 20th century is the book jacket.
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Why had I never heard of Francisco Amighetti? posted on 15 May 2016
I would consider that I have a more than average interest in all kinds of art – especially mid-twentieth century painting
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Werner Bischof posted on 01 May 2016
I feel slightly shamefaced in admitting that I knew hardly anything about Werner Bischof before I picked up this Thames and Hudson collection
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Paula Rego's Nursery Rhymes posted on 24 Apr 2016
Paula Rego was born in 1938 as a Portuguese citizen but her Anglophile parents sent her to school in the UK during the 1950s
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men posted on 20 Apr 2016
When I started to get interested in photography as a journalistic tool as well as an art form, it wasn’t long before the name of Walker Evans ..
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Narratives of a Negress posted on 12 Apr 2016
When I found this book I had no idea who Kara Walker was and I didn't recognise the style or any of the artworks
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Camera in Paris posted on 10 Apr 2016
I was really fortunate to stumble across this 1949 copy of the Focal Press edition of Camera in Paris not so long ago