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Drawing on the text

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Modern novelists are using illustrations to symbolise the book's message by association. Peter Ackroyd, A S Byatt and Thomas Harris are publishing illustrated novels, the last two also illustrated by students at the Kent Institute of Art and Design as an annual project to illustrate a contemporary novel. The Folio Society production editor, Joe Whitlock Blundell, believes different approaches suit different authors, some needing representational illustrations and others suiting illustrations which contribute to understanding and do not interfere with imagination.

Publishing industry, Portrayals, 20th century AD, Bibliography, Byatt, A.S., Illustrated books

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The fine art of drinking at Muriel's bar

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Paintings by the members of the School of London - Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, R.B. Kitaj and Michael Andrews - are currently being exhibited at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, the Venice Biennale and the National Gallery, London. These painters, along with some others, first became a group in the 1950s and 1960s, when they met at the Colony Room, a bar run by Muriel Belcher. They drank and exhibited together, but there work has few common themes.

Art, Modern, Modern art

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All that is solid melts into air

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The exhibition of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti currently being staged at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is significant for the insight it gives into his work. Most particularly, it indicates how Giacometti managed to achieve a strong sense of lightness in all his work, even in sculptures made from heavy metals. His sculptures are a means of defining space, rather than simply a strong presence in space.

Sculpture, Giacometti, Alberto

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