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Art

The Leap from the Judas Tree

7 January 2009
Stephen Chambers Andrew Lambirth

Unicorn Press, pp.192, 40

Stephen Chambers, by Andrew Lambirth Of the same 1980s generation as Peter Doig and the Young British Artists (Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin et al), Stephen Chambers has always pursued a… Read more

Photopoetry

12 December 2008
Photopoetry Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Thames & Hudson, pp.336, 42

Photopoetry, by Manuel Alvarez Bravo Manuel Alvarez Bravo, born in 1902, lived to be 100 and worked as a photographer in Mexico for eight decades. He was destined to spend… Read more

A grand overview

12 December 2008
Paintings in Proust Eric Karpeles

Thames & Hudson, pp.352, 25

This unassuming book is in fact a valuable addition to the Proust bibliography. The author, himself a painter, has had the apparently simple idea of extracting all references to works… Read more

The new look that never aged

12 December 2008
The Allure of Chanel Paul Morand

Pushkin Press, pp.181, 12

The Allure of Chanel, by Paul Morand, translated by Euan Cameron Should anyone ever ask me that daft magazine question about who you’d invite to your dream dinner-party (‘anyone in… Read more

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