Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity
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    Making European Space: Mobility, Power and Territorial Identity
    Ole B. Jensen
    Manufacturer: Routledge
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    Making European Space crystallizes and critically examines the key policy ideas emerging in the new field of European spatial planning, and explores the arguments surrounding policy themes such as polycentric development, sustainability, mobility and peripherally. It develops a theoretically informed critique based on discourse analysis and cultural sociology of space.

    The book is divided into four general sections. The first section, "Theoretical Framework", contains a general introduction to the themes, followed by two theoretical chapters on respectively European integration and the approach used for analyzing spatial policy discourses. "Representations of Space" contains the empirical analysis of the cases. This analysis is thematic and covers the language and images representing the analyzed cases which are drawn widely from the emerging literature on the implementation of the European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) as well as the authors' own empirical research. "Spatial Practices"deals with the practices, institutions, governance structures and questions of implementation relating to these policy fields. In the final section, "Power, Rationalities and Knowledge", the underlying rationalities of these spatial policy discourses are presented and wider implications for European integration are discussed.

    Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Drawings and Etchings (National Gallery London Publications)
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    • If you can't see Rembrandt in person, this is the book
    Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Drawings and Etchings (National Gallery London Publications)
    Holm Bevers , Peter Schatborn , and Barbara Welzel
    Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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    5 out of 5 stars If you can't see Rembrandt in person, this is the book.......2006-10-10

    This box set is the most prized possession on my bookshelf. I could not possibly do the pictures and information in this book justice with words. Some of the most amazing detail photographs of Rembrandt's surfaces that I have ever seen.
    REMBRANDT, THE MASTER & HIS WORKSHOP:  Vol.1 Paintings, Vol.2 Drawings & Etchings
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      REMBRANDT, THE MASTER & HIS WORKSHOP: Vol.1 Paintings, Vol.2 Drawings & Etchings
      Christopher Brown
      Manufacturer: Yale Univ. Press
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      ASIN: B000M0KR2E
      Figure Drawing Workshop
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • This is definitely a book for beginners - that's NOT a bad thing!
      • The ONLY book that makes figure drawing easy to figure out!
      • Possibly the best book I have ever read on the subject
      • BEST DRAWING BOOK ON THE MARKET!!!!!!!!!!
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      Figure Drawing Workshop
      Allan Kraayvanger
      Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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      Binding: Paperback

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      ASIN: 0823017001

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars This is definitely a book for beginners - that's NOT a bad thing!.......2007-07-13

      There seems to be a lot of unnecessary hostility towards a book that gives very simple and basic approaches to life and figure drawing. The author's approach was that if you're going to life drawing you're probably not going into the intensive workshops that show bone and muscles, this is your first time and you only get 1-2 hours, so how do you start?

      Allan's explanations of how to approach the figure as a beginner are really simple and reasonable. In fact, this book makes me do something other anatomy books haven't done.....RELAX. If you see that a teacher is drawing the figure as an average human being, why shouldn't you? Do you need to draw like Burne Hogarth especially given that the subject matter you're going to be drawing from, are average and natural figures. Everyday people are what you encounter in a life drawing class, so you need to learn how to walk before you start looking for style.

      The author is honest about his approach and discusses his weaknesses, and how he approached solutions. That's better than pretending you're a perfect anatomy god. You might think "well, if he's not not an anatomy god, then why should I read this book?" Allan tells you how to start, and how to use basics to start approaching the figure in a life drawing class, what to look for and how to capture information in short amounts of time.

      This isn't the end all/be all to figure drawing books, but this is a good book to go back and read when you're stuck sometimes. It gives you the steps to start drawing, not just how to draw better.

      Allan is honest, he didn't want to include an anatomy section. He felt that there are better teachers than him in that department. He wanted to get people comfortable drawing what they see in figure drawing classes.

      Learning the muscles are for more intermediate students, they're not something you should learn as a beginner, and not something you're actively looking for in the average life drawing class. This is not to say you shouldn't learn anatomy of muscle and skeletal studies because they ARE important as you improve as an artist, but let's look at it like this.

      Look at a children's "How to draw dogs" book? Does the author go into detailed anatomy studies when you know a child is just trying to start out? The same goes for life drawing. A person needs to learn how to observe certain basics in life drawing before going in to details. This book is perfect for that.

      Studying and making art for many years now, it was refreshing to see a book actually cover the basics in such a relaxed manner, and now it's helping me go back and place a better start on my own studies of the figure, as well as other books that are good at teaching structural anatomy.

      5 out of 5 stars The ONLY book that makes figure drawing easy to figure out!.......2005-07-16

      In art classes, I was always puzzled by exactly how I was supposed to draw the figure. Teachers would just expect us to look at the model and draw. There would be some vague discussion of anatomy, but basically you were just expected to put your pencil on the paper and produce a recognizable human figure. The results were very hit-or-miss. It was like a driver ed teacher handing me the keys to the car without explaining how to steer!

      Now that I've read and used Figure Drawing Workshop, however, I have a much better idea of how to break the human form into manageable shapes that connect to create a whole. Kraayvanger shows how to look at big organic shapes and understand them, then capture them on paper. Lots of simple, practical exercises about holding the pencil or charcoal, getting and gaining control, and seeing in shapes spell everything out in easy-to-manage steps.

      If you like clear, understandable approaches to complicated subjects, Figure Drawing Workshop is OUTSTANDING. If you want a "way in" to figure drawing that instructors haven't been able to provide, this is it. It's terrific! Get out there and get drawing!

      5 out of 5 stars Possibly the best book I have ever read on the subject.......2005-03-21

      It was many long years ago, that I tried my hand at figure drawing without much success. Now over a decade later, I tried my hand at it again and casually pickd up this book to see what it had to offer in terms of advice.

      I have to say that this is "hands down" the best book on the subject I have ever read on the subject. It is simple and easy to follow; containing a wealth of information and tips about drawing the figure perfectly from start to finish. It is definietly one of the few books that actually TEACHES you how to draw, in a way that's easy to understand.

      Some people have dismissed the book as being too cartoony compared to those of Anthony Ryder and doesn't go nearly as deep when it comes to fine details and anatomy. But I think Kraayvangers drawings flow better and display a variety of style based on the different materials used to draw them.

      Others have criticized it for not being as wordy or in depth as the other books. But I believe in the principle that less is more. Not everybody (especially myself) likes to plow through a drawing book like its an academic textbook. I learn better through mimicing and observing and there's even enough information in here to go deeper if necessary.

      All in all, this is a great book for beginners and pros alike. Don't let the cover fool you, inside there is a wealth of infomation.

      5 out of 5 stars BEST DRAWING BOOK ON THE MARKET!!!!!!!!!!.......2004-07-16

      As a painter and sculpter I wanted to tighten up my drawing skills and began looking for a book that offered clear instruction by a teacher who could personally produce a quality drawing. After looking through 75-100 books at the local mega-bookstore, I found what I was looking for. The quality of Mr. Kraavanger's art is light years ahead of ANY of the other books I viewed and his approach to teaching is logical, comprehensive and entertaining. I can say with great conviction that this IS the best figure drawing book on the market today.

      1 out of 5 stars A drawing student's opinion........2004-07-08

      In his preface Mr. Kraayvanger writes about studying to draw: "Developing the discipline to draw exactly what you see before you attempt the difficult approaches is high on the list. This is the study that many art schools have mistakenly eliminated, or best minimized, in order to protect the "fragile" creative spirit of their students."~~ I agree with the author's sentiment because I've lived it. I wanted to learn to draw and paint well and enrolled in the art department of a university. After a year of being told that my dream of making drawings as beautiful as the old masters was "unimaginative", I left and after doing some research found an atelier with the aim of training artist in the classical method. I've just finished my first year there and I have never felt so challenged and happy.~~ It's unfortunate that I find nothing else in Mr. Kraayvanger's book to agree with because it doesn't follow through on his promise of a disciplined, exacting method. The text lacks focus, is poorly organized and, in the end, is devoid of detailed (i.e. step by step) instruction. ~~ Mr. Kraayvanger writes that his "own innate style of drawing leans toward solid realism", but his drawings are not very solid and only marginally realistic. Truth be told, they don't look like the work of a professional at all but resemble the product of an "Sunday artist". They're generalized, weak, stiff and manikin like, not to forget very poorly drawn. He attempts to excuse his drawing's weaknesses by writing that "These drawings were all done from the model under time constraints...I feel it is better to show the bad ones as well as the better ones so that you can see that we all have struggle with some problems." Instruction by negative example? Puh-leez! ~~ The author writes: "The most important thing I learned is that it is not necessarily true that if you draw a lot, you will automatically get better. The truth is, if you do it wrong, you'll get better at doing it wrong." A point that his drawings display over and over again in his book, because it's filled with nothing but figure drawings gone wrong. How did this book get published?
      Popular Mechanics Complete Book of Home Repair and Improvements (complete Encyclopedia for Home, workshop and Garden)
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        Popular Mechanics Complete Book of Home Repair and Improvements (complete Encyclopedia for Home, workshop and Garden)
        Popular Mechanics
        Manufacturer: Greystone Press
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        Bruno Munari: Drawing A Tree (About the Workshop Series)
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • an effective, simple book
        • Simple and practical
        Bruno Munari: Drawing A Tree (About the Workshop Series)
        Bruno Munari
        Manufacturer: Edizioni Corraini
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        Binding: Paperback

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        4. Bruno Munari: Roses In The Salad (About the Workshop Series) Bruno Munari: Roses In The Salad (About the Workshop Series)
        5. Bruno Munari's ABC Bruno Munari's ABC

        ASIN: 8887942765
        Release Date: 2004-07-02

        Book Description

        ABOUT WORKSHOP The books in the new workshop series describe different methods of learning, from educational activities to explanatory pamphlets to poetic play. The illuminating, gentle genius of Bruno Munari offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions, and illustrative pictures to get adults and children, teachers and students working together. These three books, the first in the series, are classics from the hand of a magician. When drawing a tree, always remember that every branch is more slender than the one that came before. Also note that the trunk splits into two branches, then those branches split in two, then those in two, and so on, and so on, until you have a full tree, be it straight, squiggly, curved up, curved down, or bent sideways by the wind.

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars an effective, simple book.......2007-01-07

        I am an adult who draws stick figures (and even those don't look so hot). I purchased this book wanting to improve my skills so that I could draw with my kids and not feel like a total drawing idiot.

        I looked through the book once and, after following Munari's simple instructions, am now able to draw a very convincing tree. His method is simple, but very effective. It can be built upon to draw very sophisticated trees. I recommend this for adults and children alike.

        5 out of 5 stars Simple and practical.......2004-12-05

        "But I can't even draw a straight line!"

        A) Straight lines are over-rated, and B) You'd be surprised. This is a wonderful, simple book. It seems aimed at adults none too sure of their own drawing skills, but who must or just want to teach kids to draw.

        Even a very young child, but one who's willing to give up the "lollipop tree", will get great results from Munari's simple directions. Munari's tree is a simple thing: the letter Y, drawn again and again. Within that framework, though, there is endless variation. Munari encourages both personal creativity and a systematic exploration of the visual possibilities.

        This is a friendly approach to building basic drawing skills. Its second message is just as important, though: the image can be analyzed as well as enjoyed, and visual analysis gives choices. I really wish my early teachers had used more of Munari's wisdom in their teaching.

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        Workshop Drawing
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          Workshop Drawing
          Tubal Cain
          Manufacturer: Trans-Atlantic Publications
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          Pastels Workshop (Painting Workshop)
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • really inspiring
          • Comprehensive and enjoyable
          Pastels Workshop (Painting Workshop)
          Jackie Simmonds
          Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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          ASIN: 0007142579

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars really inspiring.......2005-12-14

          I can't say enough about this book. It doesn't matter if you are experianced or have never touched a pastel before, everyone can gain something from this wonderful book. Not only does she lay out the different materials and papers, she touches on just about everything such as color theory, perspective and composition. This is so much more than just a book on pastels. Beyond all the useful info, the pictures are just so inspiring and beautiful to look at. If you only buy one pastel book, let it be this one.

          5 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and enjoyable.......2005-01-17

          A practical and comprehensive instruction pastel workbook. Nicely laid out and easy on the eye too. The author has in mind the beginner who also needs encouragement to paint as well as adding ideas about creativity to the work not just frontal art instruction and just techniques. Definately a new generation of instruction where development of ideas, creativity, inspiration, confidence building, self assesment, demonstrations are all integrated. I also enjoyed looking at the examples used to instruct pastel painting and these were very varied giving a wide idea about what can be done with pastels. I really recomend this book for the beginner pastel artist as well as an art instructor who wants to develop an art workshop and needs some ideas. Jason Alster- author-
          Creative Painting For The Young Artist
          Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums
          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
          • It is okay
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          Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums
          Carlynne Hershberger , and Kelli Money Huff
          Manufacturer: North Light Books
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          Binding: Spiral-bound

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          ASIN: 1581808186

          Book Description

          Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box . . . and Combine the Best of All Mediums!

          Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including:

          More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations.

          From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars It is okay.......2007-08-03

          It is okay. It has a lot in it but it has not given me what I wanted. I like the way Ann Kullberg illustrates her books. She doesn't have mixed media but with colored pencil in itself she makes it very visible in what to do. This book is a good book but not as exciting as some others.

          3 out of 5 stars Entering a competitive field.......2007-08-03

          I was disappointed in this book for two reasons. Firstly the mixed media exercises use other mediums more as underpainting than as combinations with colored pencil to create new effects. By comparison, see Mary Todd Beam's demonstrations with colored pencil in mixed media in "Celebrate Your Creative Self." The results from Hershberger and Huff still look like colored pencil, not mixed media. In my view, this means it misses out as a mixed media book. How does it fare, then, as a colored pencil book?

          I find the end results of the exercises in this book rather flat compared to works by established colored pencil artists, and this is my second reason. The book begins with some promising ideas, but adding other mediums should enhance, not muddy the result as I feel they do here.

          The colored pencial medium has burgeoned into an extremely professional field in the last ten years or so, and this makes it a highly competitive market where new publications are concerned. The authors of this book have hard acts to follow, and this inevitably affects any assessment of its merits. The competition includes artist/instructors like Cecile Baird, Bet Borgeson and particularly Ann Kullberg, arguably the best of all colored pencil artists.

          In fact, on Kullberg's website, even unsuccessful entries in her 2007 juried competition have a "zing' that is somehow missing in the illustrations in this book. The explanation that clarity is inevitably lost in simplifying the step-by-step lessons may be fair enough, but I suggest you compare these instructions with those on the Kullberg website. Although using colored pencil alone, Kulberg's exercises nevertheless achieve radiant, light-filled results.

          Perhaps minor quibbles, but the exercises are not numbered (for easy reference) and the number is incorrectly given as 52 in the subtitle on the cover.

          'Creative Colored Pencil Workshop'is beautifully bound and the authors undoubtedly convey a passion for their medium, but I find that the book comes nowhere near the high standard of books by the artist/authors mentioned above. For the higher price, I really expected something more.



          5 out of 5 stars Beautiful Illustrations.......2007-05-25

          Beautiful paintings by the authors and other artists strike a nice balance between a how-to book and a must-have for sheer enjoyment. I uploaded two images so you could see into the book.
          Herschberger and Huff share their expertise on an expansive range of materials making this an excellent entry point for beginners and great fun for experimental artists. In one demonstration, or technically two I guess, they both paint from the same reference photo, but make entirely different painting choices. Witty humor highlights their rapport as the two artists work together and play off one another.
          I particularly liked the silver leaf demonstration and how it was used in a realistic, not decorative, painting. Can't wait to try that!

          5 out of 5 stars Eye Opener.......2007-05-04

          I always thought colored pencils were for the grandkids. Wow, I read the entire book in one sitting and I can't wait to try some of the new ways of using not only colored pencils, but other media. Thank you to the authors for opening my eyes to new things.
          Bruno Munari: Drawing The Sun (About the Workshop Series)
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            Bruno Munari
            Manufacturer: Edizioni Corraini
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            ASIN: 8887942773
            Release Date: 2004-07-02

            Book Description

            When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.
            Drawing Workshop
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              Drawing Workshop
              Doreen Roberts
              Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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              Binding: Hardcover

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              London from Punk to Blair
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • essential reading
              London from Punk to Blair
              Joe Kerr , and Andrew Gibson
              Manufacturer: Reaktion Books
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              London is known around the world as a metropolitan, ordered city full of tourist attractions and exclusive shops, but the real face of the city – disordered, chaotic, sprawling, vigorous, untamed – remains unseen and unexplored.

              London from Punk to Blair is a richly illustrated portrait of Europe’s foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late ’70s. Using maps, journeys, pictures, narratives and signs, the contributors chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires’ loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; from film, fashion and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth and the vagaries of weather, London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before.

              London is too complex and fragmented for any one person to comprehend fully, but this book goes a long way to help you discover what lies outside, and inside, Zone 1. The book will open your eyes to parts of London that you have never seen, or even knew existed.

              Contributors include: Phil Baker, Michael Bracewell, Christopher Breward, John Davis, Tom Dyckhoff, Allen Fisher, Charlie Gere, David Gilbert, Fiona Henderson, Patrick Keiller, Sarah Kent, Roger Luckhurst, Nicholas Royle, Hanif Kureishi, Salman Rushdie, Patrick Wright.

              Customer Reviews:

              5 out of 5 stars essential reading.......2005-09-12

              If the "sprawling, amorphous" city of London and its recent history interests you, then I cannot recommend this book enough. Published by Reaktion, who excel at releasing slightly-eccentric alternative travel accounts that "explore the creative collision between physical space and the human mind" (their Topographics series is brilliant), this book seems to be the culmination of their efforts. A big hulking 400-page tome with a thoughtfully melancholic cover depicting a vast, dirty, washed-up stretch of a Thames-side shore, and in the backdrop, the much-derided Millenium Dome.

              "London: From Punk to Blair" is at odds on the bookshelves alongside all those usual London volumes that glimmer with shots of Big Ben, Tower Bridge or Piccadilly Circus. This book comes more from the unorthodox school of Iain Sinclair, JG Ballard, Patrick Wright and Patrick Keiller (the latter two contribute chapters). Writers who present London as a strange and untameable beast, loaded with the ghosts of past inhabitants, crimes and happenings. Writers that are allured by its corruption and changing landscape. That explore the darkness that lies beneath its veneer.

              A good variety of writers present subjective and opinionated essays and accounts on an array of London subjects, that often cover the unusual and elusive. Punk, Dialect, Weather, Tube stations, Brixton, Diana's London, Crime, Film, Pigeons, the Gay scene, Strip pubs, CCTV... to name but a few. "Blowdown: The Rise and Fall of London's Tower Blocks" elaborates on Hackney Council's "European record for demolitions by a local authority". The Sunday morning spectacles where audiences are invited to view the celebrity-guested "execution" (I have attended a twin one myself on Hackney Downs). Joe Kerr interestingly ponders upon whether these demolitions are actually a good thing. With high-rise living currently working well for the rich, is the failure of council-run towerblocks simply due to mismanagement?

              The violent British thriller "The Long Good Friday" (1979, starring Bob Hoskins) receives close attention as the film that successfully epitomized what-was-to-come in Eighties London. It depicts an East-End Gangster who attempts to take advantage of the "deregulated capitalism" of the new Thatcher era, in the free-enterprise zone of Isle of Dogs. This eight-mile-square former-docksite was a ghostland of dead industry and working-class housing. The main character's ruthless ambition to build an Olympic stadium is ultimately thwarted and crushed by the very greed and corruption he ordinarily adheres to. The film stands as an accurate allegory of its free-enterprise era, and anitcipated the excessive, unfettered knock-'em-down-build'-em-high scenario that would eventually be enacted with an apocalyptic force (the working-class were swept away and sent packing) as the docks-area was transformed into a high-tech ultra-city of high finance and luxury living.

              The essays never hold back on severe tongue-lashings for both Thatcher's Conservative, and Blair's New Labour governments, and seem rooted in an old-style Leftism across the board. Hilda Kean provides a brilliant chapter, "The Transformation of Political and Cultural Space", that laments the politically-aware era of the Eighties that boasted a number of halls, pubs, cinemas and radical bookshops as its social arenas. She expands upon the demise of certain practices that have slipped from the ordinary-person by the eradicating hands of the government. Self-help groups and libraries unceremoniously closed. Thriving squat communities removed by gentrification. Radical bookshops linked to political-cultural groups, priced out and bankrupted etc. She argues that these kind of factors have led to the eradication of the encouragement and flourishing of self-education and political-awareness. (And it's true... politics, certainly amongst younger people, WAS more fashionable in the Eighties. It DOES make you ponder upon governmental motives, "commodity culture" and "culture industries" etc. and question what direction we are actually heading in).

              After reading Hilda Kean's essay, it may leave you with the impression of London's "past" being perhaps - admittedly more shabby, but - more empowered, creative, vibrant, self-nurturing and self-expressionistic... in stark contrast to the "New London": depoliticized, glossy, tourist friendly, gentrified, controlled, rebranded and repackaged. Food for thought!

              The photographs compliment the text brilliantly, ranging from '77 Jubilee street parties to Eighties 'blowdowns' to the construction of a new "office city" in Paddington. My favourite shot is a moving portrait that cries out: CHANGE. An elderly couple pasing a local demolition site, powdery dust rising into a heavy ominous sky, housing blocks in the distance standing next in line for the death sentence. A poignant scene that speaks volumes about real everyday needs and life, versus the elusive but destuctive powers-that-be.

              Interstingly, the book explores the emotional impact that certain physical spaces can induce. Iain Sinclair, a writer who explores and chronicles the capital's nooks and crannies like a man with a mental magnet, is conspicuous in his contributive absence, yet receives several references and discussions. The idea of atmospheric hidden-zones is given some thoughtful exploration by Nicholas Royal, who accounts his habitual solitary excursions through the city's fenced-off derelict quarters. The empty warehouses, hospitals and offices, draped in dust, "charged with a potent melancholy" that play a part in "the imaginative life of the city". And that one by one fall foul to the wrecking ball.

              The topics of this book reach far and wide. Overall, it is interesting and thought-provoking. Ultimately, the underlying message seems to suggest a London that was perhaps "better before". The mood of many parts of the book can be summed up in a sentence from the inroduction: "Amidst the apparent evidence of increasing diversity and heterogeneity, the truth is that contemporary London is simultaneously moving towards greater uniformity and homogeneity".

              Nevertheless, read and be stimulated.

              Penmen
              Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
              • The best comic strip I've seen
              Penmen
              Gary Blehm
              Manufacturer: Harcourt
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              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 0156000768

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              5 out of 5 stars The best comic strip I've seen.......2001-03-04

              This book is more then a comic strip. Blehm's pen men don't say much, but speak a lot. They know no boudaries, the linear edges of a frame can only act as shelter, cloth, and even water. Visually appealing, these adorable penmen are addictave. I would love to contact the author/artist and ask him to make more books. I give this book an A+!
              The Origin And Progress Of Letters: The First Part Shewing When And By Whom Letters Were Invented; The Second Consists Of A Compendious Account Of The Most Celebrated English Penmen
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                The Origin And Progress Of Letters: The First Part Shewing When And By Whom Letters Were Invented; The Second Consists Of A Compendious Account Of The Most Celebrated English Penmen
                William Massey
                Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover
                ASIN: 0548383324

                Book Description

                This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
                Ames' book of flourishes: 125 designs by 72 leading American penmen
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                  Ames' book of flourishes: 125 designs by 72 leading American penmen
                  Daniel T Ames
                  Manufacturer: D.T. Ames
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                  ASIN: B000886BKM
                  Ames' compendium of practical and ornamental penmanship: Giving more than 20 entire alphabets with numerous designs for engrossed resolutions, testimonials, ... &c. for the use of penmen and artists
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                    Ames' compendium of practical and ornamental penmanship: Giving more than 20 entire alphabets with numerous designs for engrossed resolutions, testimonials, ... &c. for the use of penmen and artists
                    Daniel T Ames
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                    Gaskell's guide, embracing instructions in plain and ornamental penmanship,: With portraits and sketches of living American penmen whose work appears in ... how to teach penmanship ... etc., etc
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                      Gaskell's guide, embracing instructions in plain and ornamental penmanship,: With portraits and sketches of living American penmen whose work appears in ... how to teach penmanship ... etc., etc
                      George Arthur Gaskell
                      Manufacturer: The G.A. Gaskell Co
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                      Lectures on an improved system of teaching the art of writing: By the aid of which it may be acquired, both in theory and practice, in one third of the ... are added practical hints to young penmen
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                        Lectures on an improved system of teaching the art of writing: By the aid of which it may be acquired, both in theory and practice, in one third of the ... are added practical hints to young penmen
                        William Edward Shinton
                        Manufacturer: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown
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                        An opportunity for penmen
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                          An opportunity for penmen
                          Will Carter
                          Manufacturer: Lund Humphries]
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                          ASIN: B0007K7IBC
                          The penman's hand-book: For penmen and students, embracing a history of writing ... many complete alphabets ... Also, chapters on teaching penmanship, ... letter writing, off-hand flourishing, etc
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                            The penman's hand-book: For penmen and students, embracing a history of writing ... many complete alphabets ... Also, chapters on teaching penmanship, ... letter writing, off-hand flourishing, etc
                            George Arthur Gaskell
                            Manufacturer: The Author
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                            Tolley's Construction Health and Safety
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                              Tolley's Construction Health and Safety
                              Director Of Health And Safety Consultant Editor: Martin Barnard Symonds Group , Lonsdale Safety And Business Consultants Ron Akass , Penmen & Co Fred Osliff , Health & Safety Consultant George Ventris , Solicitor Judith Bird Dechert , Solicitor Kevin Greene Nicholson Graham & Jones , and Andrew Vick
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                              Welby's book of alphabets,: For ornamental penmen, professional letterers, and students, with practical directions for lettering, illuminating, etc
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                                Welby's book of alphabets,: For ornamental penmen, professional letterers, and students, with practical directions for lettering, illuminating, etc
                                Edward Welby
                                Manufacturer: Hall & Whiting
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