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Paul Johnson
The Paint Froze On His Brush
Eric Ravilious: Landscape, Letters & Design
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Paul Johnson
A Rare Luminousity
Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings
By Patrick Noon
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February 2009 Issue
Frances Spalding
‘That Necessary Article Cash’
Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
By Martin Gayford
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February 2009 Issue
Peter Washington
Remembrance of Paintings Past
Paintings in Proust
By Eric Karpeles
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Frances Spalding
Back in the Frame
Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, & Rodin
By Ruth Butler
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Alex Danchev
Band of Bohemians
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910
By Sue Roe
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Brian Dillon
Lost Soles
A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West
By Lesley Chamberlain
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James Delingpole
Rah-Rah for Reredos
A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover’s Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash
By Harry Mount
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October 2008 Issue
William Cash
An Overheated Balloon
Seven Days in the Art World
By Sarah Thornton
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October 2008 Issue
Jane Rye
The Wild Shores of Buggery
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
By Michael Peppiatt
Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait
By Michael Peppiatt
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October 2008 Issue
Frances Spalding
Artist of the Floating World
Chagall: Love and Exile
By Jackie Wullschlager
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December 2007 Issue
Allan Massie
Art Against Authority
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
By Peter Gay
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December 2007 Issue
A C Grayling
Simply Hideous
The Complement of Beauty On Ugliness
By Umberto Eco
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December 2007 Issue
Charles Saumarez Smith
Private Riches
Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945
By James Stourton
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December 2007 Issue
Frances Wilson
A Sketch in the Margin
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual
By Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley (ed)
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December 2007 Issue
Frances Spalding
Menace in the Mundane
Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye
By Jane Stevenson
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December 2007 Issue
John McEwen
I am God, I am God
A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932
By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully)
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December 2007 Issue
Paul Johnson
Painter of All Nature
George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné
By Judy Egerton
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October 2007 Issue
Virginia Ironside
War and Paint
Camouflage and Art: Design for Deception in World War II
By Henrietta Goodden
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October 2007 Issue
John Gray
Split Religion
Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins
By Peter Conrad
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