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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog

It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.

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Station Zero
Philip Reeve
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K. Le Guin, Charles Vess
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John Masefield
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Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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JMW Turner, Bockemuhl

Turner (25) - Michael Bockemuhl

The text of this book is awful, indulging as it does in hyperbolic flights of meaningless cod-philosophy to "explain" what is probably mostly the result of deteriorating eyesight on the part of Turner - and I quit the text at p66. Turner himself, however was a great artist with both oils and water-colours and the pictures reproduced here are a delight.

 

I don't know but I suspect that there's probably another affordable book about Turner that might show some more useful insight and I'd suggest looking for one before getting a copy of this.